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The beleaguered federal Bureau of Prisons said Monday it will close a women’s prison in California known as the “rape club” despite attempts to reform the troubled facility after an Associated Press investigation exposed rampant staff-on-inmate sexual abuse.
United States: women emerging from prison face disproportionate challenges to resuming their lives
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Ohio — an epicenter of the opioid crisis — is among the states that experienced the most dramatic jump in female prisoners. Programs aimed at helping women stay out of prison once they’re released have not grown at nearly the same pace, according to the National Institute of Justice.
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Despite highly publicized arrests and promises of change, sexual abuse and retaliation continue at the prison in Dublin, California.
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Violence, acts of protest, prison conditions, justice reforms: find out what is new about prisons and justice in this country. Prison Insider monitors the press on a regular basis.
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Estados Unidos: Nueva York trasladará mujeres y transexuales de la peligrosa cárcel de Rikers
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At least 30 states began officially and formally sanctioning this practice under the “1907 Indiana Eugenics Law.”
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A U.S. District Court judge has ruled that a prison would violate an inmate’s constitutional rights by denying her from having gender-affirming surgery, and has ordered correction officials to allow for the inmate to make such arrangements.
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The United States imprisons the most women in the world. Across the United States, approximately 200,000 women are incarcerated—nearly an 800 percent increase since 1980. Women of color are disproportionately affected by the criminal justice system. In 2017, twice as many Black women and 1.3 times…
United States: California law is step forward but fails to guarantee safety for trans prisoners
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Syiaah Skylit has been imprisoned in California since 2015. Despite multiple requests to be placed in a women’s prison, Skylit, a Black trans woman, has always been incarcerated in the state’s men’s prisons. There, she has faced attacks by incarcerated men as well as sexual abuse and retaliation by…
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“I am forced to make a choice on what’s more important, my freedom or my health,” Ortega said.
Estados Unidos: informes profundamente alarmantes sobre esterilización forzosa de mujeres detenidas por el ICE
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USA: after Louisiana women's prison flooded in 2016, temporary dorms inundated with coronavirus
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In one massive room filled with rows of metal bunk beds about an arm’s length apart, 70 women share three toilets and four sinks. There’s no such thing as social distancing inside the female prison dorms that have become inundated with coronavirus cases.
The high case numbers have prompted Departme…
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This article was originally published by The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system.
Melissa Ann Horn’s name appeared over and over in court records and jail blotters in the rural Virginia county where she was born, and where she was arrested for c…
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Nonprofit pregnancy support organizations help strengthen bonds between incarcerated women and their newborn children.
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WASHINGTON — Inmates at New Jersey’s only state prison for women were regularly sexually assaulted by guards and sometimes forced to engage in sex acts with other prisoners while staff members looked on, according to a Justice Department report released on Monday detailing widespread, pervasive sex…