The Female Prisoners Welfare Project (FPWP) is a registered charity established in 1986 to provide support for females of all ethnic origins and nationalities within the UK criminal justice system.
    Hibiscus is a branch of FPWP and was set up in 1991 to address the special needs of foreign national women imprisoned in the UK.
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FPWP/ Hibiscus
12 Angel Gate
320 City Road
London EC1V 2PT
Tel: 020 7278 7116
Fax: 020 7837 3339
e-mail:
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Rate of drug shipment to Ghana becoming worse – Bartels

Accra Daily Mail, 26/10/07 Mr Kwamena Bartels, Minister of  Interior on Wednesday bemoaned the rate at which massive quantities of drugs, were being shipped into the country and said government would make the necessary amendments to. ...


Supporting Jamaican Deported Migrants and their Families, Kingston, Jamaica, February 2010

Hibiscus in collaboration with the Institute of Sustainable Development, University of the West Indies, Jamaica, and funding from the United Nations Development Programme have embarked on a new project to help Jamaican women returninghome at ...


Born behind bars, The Observer, Sunday 21 February 2010 by Cat McShane and Eva Wiseman

Between 2005 and 2008, 283 babies were born in British prisons. Some mothers recall going into labour at night, to the sound of fighting. Many babies were delivered through emergency caesarean; many were born with ...


Children held unnecessarily at Yarl’s Wood – inspector

By Dominic Casciani BBC News 25/03/2010 An inspection report on Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre has sharply criticised the detention of children. Chief prisons inspector Dame Anne Owers said some children were held at the Bedfordshire centre ...


‘Race’, ethnicity and crime

Olga Heaven and Barbara Hudson INTRODUCTION The aim of this chapter is to explore the relationships between 'race', 'ethnicity' and 'crime', and we shall examine how these conflated and complex terms are used interchangeably. There is a ...


Stopping Ghana’s Drug Trade: a report by Guy Smith, BBC NEWS.

FPWP Hibiscus launches a campaign in Ghana to educate young people about the dangers of becoming drug mules. Watch video from the BBC NEWS archive.


ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING

Global Eye on Human Traffiking, 5 May 2009 Olga Heaven spoke to the Global Eye team about the deception and exploitation of drug mules, and about the link between illicit drug importation and human trafficking. How ...


Long sentences for drug mules were never going to act as a deterrent

The Guardian, Thursday 14 May 2009 These naive smugglers are typically badly educated single mothers coerced into crime, says Olga Heaven It was heartening to read that prison sentences for "drug mules" - men and women who ...


Bola Gets Rich Quick

Drug education campaign launched in Nigeria in 2006 and 2008. West Africa has become a transit point for South American cocaine barons who are targeting Europe. The campaign in Nigeria was first launched in November 2006. Hibiscus ...


Maame Goes to London

Ghana, November 2007, FPWP/Hibiscus in partnership with the British High Commission in Accra, launches the public information campaign ‘Maame goes to London’ Preparation for the campaign involved establishing local partnerships and meeting the community leaders, the ...