‘There is a gap where Alex should be’: the young woman who lost her life in a neglectful prison system

Alex Davies with her mother, Stacie Davies, who has said her daughter’s death has left her family broken. Photograph: supplied

“There is a gap or a space where Alex should be,” Stacie Davies said. “Wherever I am, she’s not there.”

At just 25 years old, her daughter, Alex Davies, was found dead in her segregation cell at Styal prison in Cheshire on Christmas Eve last year.