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June 24, 2017

United States: nineteen women inmates graduate with associate degrees

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America North America Women United States

College graduations are emotional occasions, but it would be hard to match the level of enthusiasm and joy that pervaded the gymnasium at the Washington Corrections Center for Women this month when 19 inmates received diplomas.

June 19, 2017

Nepal: women in jail

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Women Asia Nepal

A woman from Palpa is currently serving her term at the Central Jail in Sundhara, Kathmandu for killing her own child. She is mentally disturbed. “She had beaten her child for playing with water. How could a mother kill her own child? Fate locked her up,” said a fellow inmate at the jail. “I myself…

June 14, 2017

Israel: see inside Israel's only female prison

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Women Middle East Israel

In Israel, there are around 25,000 men in prison. Some 14,000 of these are convicted on criminal charges. The rest are incarcerated on security-related charges – and are mostly Palestinian. In comparison, there are just 200 women in prison in the Holy Land. And they’re all in one place – Neve Tirza…

June 8, 2017

Canada: justice system re-victimises indigenous women

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America North America Women Canada

Another week. Another investigation into allegations that a sexual assault victim has been treated like a criminal. No doubt this one too will result in solemn mea culpas and a pledge to do better.

June 3, 2017

Japan: the arrested development of female prisons

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Women Asia Japan

Though the prison population in Japan is remarkably small compared to other countries, there have been increases in recent years among certain demographics. The media is particularly sensitive to elderly inmates. Less remarked upon are female prisoners.

June 3, 2017

Portugal: prison numbers up 19% in six years to 2016; female inmates up 39%

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Women Portugal

The number of inmates in Portugal’s prisons rose by 18.7% between 2010 and 2016, going from 11,613 to 13,779, figures released by the Ministry of Justice show.

May 25, 2017

USA: security is not safety gendered harms in women’s prisons

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Women United States

My experience in women’s prisons has led me to question this dynamic for imprisoned women: does security create safety?

May 15, 2017

UK: female Scots prisoners to have children to stay at weekend

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Women United Kingdom

Children of female prisoners will be able to spend nights and weekends with their mothers in Scotland’s new community jails.

May 11, 2017

Women living with babies inside Ohio prison

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Women United States

The soft-spoken young woman sitting on the floor with her toddler son playing with toy cars could easily be in any setting. A preschool. A child care center. Or her own living room.

April 24, 2017

United States: women inmates file second suit against state prison doctor

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America North America Women Health United States

Three inmates who claim they were sexually abused by a physician at the state women’s prison have filed a federal lawsuit against the doctor and two other medical staffers.

April 17, 2017

United States: innovative prison programs boost opportunities for female inmates

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America North America Women United States

For five years, inmates haven’t even had the opportunity to obtain high school equivalency diplomas at the Lackawanna County Prison in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The GED program was scrapped during a county budgeting crisis in 2012 and has yet to be reinstated.

April 8, 2017

Kyrgyzstan: female convicts face harsh future

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Women Kyrgyzstan

Experts say that jailing women has far-reaching societal repercussions.

April 1, 2017

New Guatemala prison facility readies female convicts’ return to society

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America Central America and the Caribbean Women Guatemala

Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales and the US assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, William Brownfield, inaugurated Monday the penitentiary management model’s first rehabilitation and reintegration center for some 160 female inmates.

March 16, 2017

Sierra Leone: justice for women who kill

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Africa Women Sierra Leone

Aminata* was only 17 years old when she was arrested for killing her former boyfriend eight years ago. She was sentenced to death for murder in November 2010 and feared each day she would be executed before her sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by the government on Sierra Leone’s 50th Inde…

March 12, 2017

Dans les prisons thaïlandaises, "les femmes sont battues à coups de canne"

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Women Asia Thailand

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March 8, 2017

United Kingdom: female prison reform undermined by short custodial sentences

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Women United Kingdom

Government proposals for female prison system reforms have been welcomed as a step forward

March 6, 2017

Brazil’s illegal treatment of women in prison

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Women Brazil

To enter the unsanitary, violent, and inhumane cells of Brazil’s prisons is to step into a cruel netherworld where neither Brazilian nor international law seem to apply. For nearly 37,000 women behind bars, there is added anguish.

March 6, 2017

Results from Penal Reform International’s project on women in criminal justice system in Georgia

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Women Georgia

In December 2016, Penal Reform International concluded a one-year project that was dedicated to pursuing a gender-specific criminal justice system in Georgia, in line with the UN Bangkok Rules.

February 27, 2017

Australia: lift game on violence to women

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Women Oceania Violence Australia

Women locked up for unpaid fines and red tape stopping others from escaping domestic violence were among issues that left a United Nations expert unimpressed during an inaugural visit to Australia.

February 20, 2017

Shaken - Tonia Miller's story

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Women United States

Eighteen-year-old Tonia Miller was accused of shaking her baby to death. Listen to Life of the Law’s episode.

February 14, 2017

Ireland’s unequal treatment of women in the criminal justice system raised with the U.N.

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Women Ireland

Ireland is sending too many women to prison for non-violent offences, including failure to pay court-ordered fines, and the lack of provision of gender-specific alternatives to prison and the lack of open prison facilities for women may amount to discrimination under the UN Convention on Eliminatio…

January 24, 2017

United States: white women are going to prison at a higher rate than ever before

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America North America Women United States

Mass incarceration of women was one of the important issues highlighted by the Women’s March on Washington.

December 28, 2016

Inside Colombia’s hottest new restaurant where the inmates of a women’s prison are in charge

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Women Colombia

Visitors are flocking to a new gourmet restaurant in Cartagena with a difference; it’s located inside the San Diego women’s prison and the inmates in pink turbans cook and serve the food. Restaurante Interno opened in December and has already attracted a strong turnout in the tourist town. Visitors…

December 27, 2016

“3000 nuits” de Mai Masri : femmes en résistance dans les prisons israëliennes

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Culture Women Middle East Israel

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