“If the aspirations of Corrections’ flagship policies regarding women are to be genuinely and properly realised, the fortunes of women who end up in the deepest end of Corrections’ custody need to be improved for them to leave prison in a better place than they were when entering it. At the very least, they must not be made worse.” As leading trauma expert, Babette Rothschild, put it, one of the key foundations of safe trauma therapy is to: “View the trauma system as a pressure cooker. Always work to reduce- never to increase- the pressure. … Every trauma client, whether frozen, dissociated, or hypervigilant, is suffering with a nervous system that is in overdrive, already provoked to the highest level. Reducing pressure by removing provocation will relieve the nervous system and make mobility, calmness and clear thinking more possible.”60 Adhering to this principle requires a complete change in the way in which women in the deep end of prisons are managed. Rather than segregating, restraining and depriving women perceived to be ‘challenging’ or ‘at risk’, and confining them to sparsely furnished cells with few, or no, personal belongings, these women need to be supported and instilled with hope and something to look forward to. And it is exactly those women with the highest and most complex needs and challenges, that one finds in segregated housing, who require the greatest attention, input, and care. “Rather than segregating, restraining and depriving women perceived to be ‘challenging’ or ‘at risk’, and confining them to sparsely furnished cells with few, or no, personal belongings, these women need to be supported and instilled with hope and something to look forward to.” 60 Rothschild, B (2011) Trauma Essentials: the go to guide. W.W. Norton & Company, New York, at p 15. 55