What If Justice Started With Belonging: A talk with Sarah Lewis

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We sit down with Dr Sarah Lewis, CEO of Penal Reform Solutions and Grow Transform Belong, to unpack a simple, challenging idea: trust and relationships are not “nice to have” in justice, they are central to safety, dignity, and effective rehabilitation. 

We focus on women in prison: how a system designed around men often fails to meet women’s needs, why trauma and stigma shape outcomes, and how rising distress and self-harm should prompt us to look at the environment as well as the individual. Sarah shares the thinking behind the Growth App, a digital “one-stop shop” designed with lived experience to help people leaving prison find local support for housing, work, family, and community, alongside the wider Justice 2.0 campaign and the Heard Not Hidden event challenging harmful narratives. 

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