Woman tells of being jailed during mental health crisis, and officer details ‘inhumane’ system in England
. The Guardian speaks to a woman imprisoned for setting fire to a cushion and a prison officer running a unit for the sickest prisoners.Shell Ball cannot remember exactly what was going through her head when she set fire to a cushion in her home in Crewe in 2019. But she had been struggling to cope with the death of her fiance, Gary, who had started drinking heavily again after they lost a baby. “I got quite drunk and I really don’t know why but I set fire to the corner of a cushion.
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