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July 1, 2020

France: Inequality of life during an epidemic

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Those imprisoned or detained are in forced confinement, states Didier Fassin. He has published a forum on the Liberation website. He questions whether the “sense of responsibility and solidarity” advocated by Emmanuel Macron stops at the doors of prisons and overcrowded detention centres.

Source — Libération

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June 22, 2020

Spain: el Congreso exige al Gobierno una auditoría de las condiciones de las mujeres en prisión

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June 10, 2020

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 Department…

Source — The advocate

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June 9, 2020

Touch — 9/12

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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… Read more

June 4, 2020

Afghanistan: life inside Kabul's women's prison during Covid-19

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Thousands of prisoners in Afghanistan have been released and pardoned as the country battles the Covid-19 pandemic. But in Kabul’s only prison facility for women, more than a hundred women, often with young children, remain behind bars. FRANCE 24 reports from Kabul. In Afghanistan’s overcrowded prisons,…

Source — France 24

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June 4, 2020

USA: what women dying in prison from COVID-19 tell us about female incarceration

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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 crimes…

Source — Argus Leader

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June 4, 2020

Argentina: #NiUnaMenos, desde las cárceles también

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June 4, 2020

South America: las mujeres tienen mayor riesgo de suicidio en las cárceles

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May 20, 2020

Argentina: ¿para qué está la cárcel?

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May 19, 2020

USA: filling the maternal-care gap

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Triona Carter’s birth of her first son, in a county jail in Alabama, was “one of the most hurtful things to ever go through.” The pain was both physical and emotional. She was “handcuffed to the bed,” aware that she would soon be separated from her child. “[I was] holding him, knowing that I don’t know…

Source — The American Prospect

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May 13, 2020

Swiss: proportion la plus faible d'étrangers en prison depuis 15 ans

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April 30, 2020

Central African Republic: a woman and a prison director

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Training, life in prison, lack of staff and budget, security, armed conflicts: Gisèle explains, based on her own experience, how incarceration is managed in a country where resources are scarce, and demands are abundant. Read more

April 24, 2020

South Africa: plans under way to remove babies of offenders from East London prison after Covid-19 outbreak

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The correctional services department is making plans for babies of two offenders at an East London female prison to be taken to their mothers’ families after cases of Covid-19 at the correctional facility. There are 26 confirmed coronavirus cases at the East London Correctional Centre. Three are inmates…

Source — Times Live

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April 24, 2020

USA: inmates at N.J. women’s prison endured years of sex abuse, justice dept. finds

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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 sexual…

Source — The New York Times

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April 9, 2020

France: pour certaines féministes, la prison n'est pas la solution contre les agressions sexuelles

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April 6, 2020

Australia: 'urgent action' needed over high proportion of Indigenous women in prison, report says

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The number of Indigenous women in custody has been called “one of the most challenging human rights issues facing Australia”. Research out today has shed new light on Indigenous women in the criminal justice system in New South Wales. It found the number of women in NSW jails between March 2013 and June…

Source — ABC News

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March 26, 2020

Australia: women released from prison are at much greater risk of violence

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Violence against women is rarely out of the news in Australia. We are now ten years into the National Action Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women (2010-2022), but there is still a long way to go. Our research shows this is particularly true for women who have been to prison. The considerable challenges…

Source — The conversation

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March 26, 2020

UK: concern over segregated transgender women prisoners

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The segregation of a jail’s transgender women prisoners for “long periods” has been noted as a concern by a watchdog. The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) also had “serious concerns” about the lack of rehabilitation courses, and of women facing homelessness on release from HMP Eastwood Park. It praised…

Source — BBC

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March 12, 2020

Women in prison: a "tough place"

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Women and girls make up 7% of the global prison population, in various proportions. While they represent 3% in African countries, it goes up to 8 % in the Americas, and 6 % in Europe. The highest proportions are found in Hong Kong-China (21%), Laos (18%) or Qatar (15%). Read more

March 11, 2020

Mexico: mujeres padecen el olvido en las cárceles

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March 11, 2020

Jamaica: the agony of serving time in prison while pregnant

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In Jamaica, women incarcerated while pregnant face the painful reality of being separated from their newborn up to six months after giving birth — a reality which often leads to anxiety and depression for the rest of their stay in prison.

Source — Jamaica Observer

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March 11, 2020

Spain: machismo en el sistema penitenciario y la triple condena que sufren las mujeres en las cárceles españolas

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February 27, 2020

UK: women released from prison nearly three times less likely to be in employment on release than men

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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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February 12, 2020

France: "aux oubliées", l’initiative pour offrir des livres aux femmes en prison

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