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Spain: machismo en el sistema penitenciario y la triple condena que sufren las mujeres en las cárceles españolas
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Women
Europe
Spain
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Women
Europe
Rehabilitation
United Kingdom
A new briefing, Working It Out, published today by the Prison Reform Trust and Working Chance, reveals that fewer than one in 20 women (4%) were in employment six weeks after release from prison, compared with over one in 10 men (11%).
Source — Prison Reform Trust
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Culture
Women
Europe
Activities
France
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France: femmes détenues et inégalités dans la population carcérale
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North America
Women
Minors
Europe
Health
France
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Women
Europe
Middle East
Activities
Turkey
Arrested in Kandıra Type F Prison, former HDP Co-Chair Figen Yüksekdağ says that she has started playing a musical instrument in prison: “I make no claim in arts, my days in prison are turning into a lively and smooth life.”
Source — Bianet
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Asia
Foreign prisoners
Health
Overcrowding
India
The 2018 statistics on prison must spur the criminal justice system to assess, evaluate and take affirmative steps.
Source — Hindustan Times
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Hearing — 8/12
Inside Outside
North America
South America
Women
Asia
Europe
Long-term prisoners
Each month, the photographer Bertrand Gaudillère creates an image or chooses one from his archives. Prison Insider sends it to a dozen participants, prisoners around the world.They are in Argentina, in the United States of America, in France, in Switzerland, in Guatemala, in Ukraine, in Colombia, in…
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Oceania
Australia
December 25th can be a chaotic mix of cheer and stress, but above all, it is a time of year dedicated to family. While most celebrate with their loved ones, for those in prison, Christmas is a complicated matter.
“It has a bit more of an impact on the women,” said Superintendent Julie Steineuer from…
Source — ABC
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North America
Women
United States
The Reentry Initiative is one of two programs in the state that helps women parolees. Additionally, the program works with women before and after their release and men after their release. Roughly 250 to 285 people are released through Longmont parole.
Source — DailyCamera
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North America
Women
United States
Our 50-state survey finds that in spite of national standards, most states lack important policies on prenatal care and nutrition for pregnant women.
Source — Prison Policy Initiative
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North America
Women
Violence
United States
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said Friday that he’s suspended a policy that allowed prison officials to strip search an 8-year-old girl who was visiting her father.
Source — ABC News
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Sight — 7/12
Inside Outside
North America
South America
Women
Asia
Europe
Long-term prisoners
Each month, the photographer Bertrand Gaudillère creates an image or chooses one from his archives. Prison Insider sends it to a dozen participants, prisoners around the world.They are in Argentina, in the United States of America, in France, in Switzerland, in Guatemala, in Ukraine, in Colombia, in…
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North America
Women
United States
“We think that individuals are ‘bad’ people instead of understanding that the system doesn’t create an environment for them to flourish once they leave prison”
Source — Tennessean
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North America
Women
United States
Women are the fastest-growing population of inmates in the United States. And what they’re being sentenced for may surprise you.
Source — Dame Magazine
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Taste — 6/12
Inside Outside
North America
South America
Women
Asia
Europe
Long-term prisoners
Each month, the photographer Bertrand Gaudillère creates an image or chooses one from his archives. Prison Insider sends it to a dozen participants, prisoners around the world.They are in Argentina, in the United States of America, in France, in Switzerland, in Guatemala, in Ukraine, in Colombia, in…
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Smell — 5/12
Inside Outside
North America
South America
Women
Asia
Europe
Long-term prisoners
Each month, the photographer Bertrand Gaudillère creates an image or chooses one from his archives. Prison Insider sends it to a dozen participants, prisoners around the world.They are in Argentina, in the United States of America, in France, in Switzerland, in Guatemala, in Ukraine, in Colombia, in…
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Japan: ”her present fate is to rot in solitude”
Testimonial
Women
Asia
Death penalty
Japan
C. Hayashi has been visiting his mother on death row for 16 years. He talks about her conditions of detention.
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Madagascar: out of sight
Interview
Africa
Women
Material conditions
Activities
Social ties
Madagascar
Elise Maillot is 30 years old. She has been visiting prisons for the last two years. She was in Madagascar, her home country, at the end of 2018. There, she visited the Manjakandriana prison for women. Prison Insider asked her three questions.
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Women
Europe
Ireland
A total of 23 pregnant women have been in custody in the country’s two female prisons so far this year, new figures have revealed.
Source — Irish Examiner
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Oceania
Health
New Zealand
Prisoners have been isolated and babies put into quarantine at Auckland Region Women’s Corrections Facility over fears of a measles outbreak.
On Tuesday night, Corrections informed Newshub there were concerns three female prisoners had been exposed to measles. They will remain isolated until their immunity…
Source — Newshub
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Hearing — 4/12
Inside Outside
North America
South America
Women
Asia
Europe
Long-term prisoners
Each month, the photographer Bertrand Gaudillère creates an image or chooses one from his archives. Prison Insider sends it to a dozen participants, prisoners around the world.They are in Argentina, in the United States of America, in France, in Switzerland, in Guatemala, in Ukraine, in Colombia, in…
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Women
Middle East
Material conditions
Torture
Iran
Two hundred inmates in Ward 5 of Gharchak Prison for women in the Iranian city of Varamin have sent an open letter to the head of the State Prisons Organization in Tehran Province protesting the prison’s inhumane living conditions.
Source — Iran Human Rights
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