When Jasvinder Sanghera was just 15 years old, her mum told her that she was going to be married to a man she had never met. Jasvinder’s older sisters had been through similar things. But instead of going along with the way things had always been in her family and community, Jasvinder escaped.

And then, she helped thousands of other women and girls to do the same.

Related resources

Karma Nirvana - https://karmanirvana.org.uk/ 

Unchained At Last (a US-based NGO) https://www.unchainedatlast.org/get-help/

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The fourth and final bonus episode of Season 3 and our first ever LIVE episode of The Girlfriends!

Recorded in front of a live audience from Wilderness Festival in Oxfordshire, UK, Anna is joined by author Kate Summerscale to discuss her book, “The Peepshow” and the wider impact of the True Crime genre. 

 

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Anna sits down with author, lawyer and activist; Leigh Goodmark, to discuss the problems of prisons. Especially when it comes to imperfect victims, like Kelly. 

And Anna asks - is prison abolition really the answer? 

 

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Anna deep dives into the story of Tina, who you first met back in Episode 7. 

Unlike Kelly, Tina fully admits that she committed a terrible crime. But is prison the right place for her?  And does she deserve to be forgiven? 

 

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Bruna DiBiase is the judge who presided over Kelly’s resentencing. But long before Kelly walked into her courtroom, Judge Bruna’s life had already been touched by tragedy. 

In the first of four bonus episodes, Anna sits down with Bruna and her daughter Lisa- to discover how this mother and daughter found their way back to each other, from opposite sides of the law. 

 

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Struggling to adjust to life outside of prison, Kelly tries to start fresh.  

And Anna discovers that while her story is nearly over, for Kelly… it’s only just the beginning. 

 

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Years into her incarceration, with a decade left to serve… a new law might finally give Kelly, and some of her inmate clients, a chance at freedom.

But for some, it might have come too late. 

 

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Reeling from the jury’s verdict, Kelly searches for the strength to keep fighting in a new maximum security prison. 

 

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Kelly’s case finally goes to trial and the prosecution throws everything they have at her. How can she convince a jury that, not only is she not guilty but that she’s a victim too?

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Stuck in Rikers Island Jail, Kelly forms a family of women who’ve been through hell, just like her. But she’s got enemies too. 

And as she studies for her case, she begins to discover that the law… just might be the greatest love of her life.

 

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