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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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North America Women United States

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

January 13, 2017

France : menaces et radicalisme à la nursery de la prison de Fleury-Mérogis

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Women Europe Justice Violence Religion France

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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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December 18, 2016

Australia : new Perth women's prison opens with private operator offered cash incentives

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Women Oceania Facilities Australia

The first inmates have moved into WA’s new women’s jail, where the private operators are being offered cash incentives by the Government to ensure prisoners are rehabilitated. In an Australian first, the company Sodexo will get bonus payments for ensuring inmates at Melaleuca prison do not reoffend…

November 30, 2016

Hend Alkahwaji, Syria

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Women Middle East Syria

“Sometimes, I sang in my cell to break the silence, not to go mad.”

November 19, 2016

USA : study suggests Illinois women's prison disciplines inmates too harshly

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Women Discipline Violence United States

Inmates at Illinois’ major women’s prison have been called “crazy” and “worthless” by corrections officers, are sometimes placed in an unpadded open-bar “crisis cage” and receive harsher discipline than men for similar offenses, a study released Friday says.

November 16, 2016

France : de plus en plus de femmes radicalisées en prison

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Women Europe Discipline Religion France

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October 15, 2016

Chine : les femmes d'avocats emprisonnés défient le régime communiste

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Women Asia Justice China

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October 14, 2016

UK : the hidden mental health crisis in women’s prisons

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Women Health Mental health United Kingdom

From self-harming in groups to starvation and self-immolation, women are overwhelmingly more likely than men to hurt themselves while incarcerated. So why isn’t the prison system responding? Maria, 29, is a disability rights activist who uses a wheelchair. She also has borderline personality disord…

October 13, 2016

Turquie : la torture de retour, et dans les prisons de femmes

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Women Europe Torture Turkey

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October 11, 2016

Afghanistan : most Afghan women serve sentences in elders' homes, not prisons

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Women Afghanistan

When 18-year-old Fawzia was convicted of elopement and adultery, a local Afghan court in the southeastern province of Paktika sentenced her to jail. She soon discovered that she would not be serving the 18-month sentence in a government-run prison, but in the house of a tribal elder where she would…

October 1, 2016

Canada : Québec planifie une nouvelle prison pour femmes

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North America Women Canada

Préoccupé par la cohabitation de détenus des deux sexes à la prison Leclerc, le ministre de la Sécurité publique, Martin Coiteux, conclut qu’il faut construire un nouveau centre de détention pour femmes dans la région de Montréal. Dans une entrevue accordée au Devoir, le ministre Coiteux a révélé q…

September 17, 2016

Uganda: education in Luzira Women’s Prison

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Africa Women Uganda

When you walk through the administration block of Luzira Women’s Prison, the first thing you notice is the neat lawn. Then, you see students studying under three trees. In their yellow uniforms, these are not your average students, though. Four women sit on benches under the first tree, facing a bl…

September 5, 2016

France : à la prison de Nice, le quartier des femmes est "une poudrière"

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Women Europe France

Les cellules dédiées aux détenues féminines sont occupées à 200 %, selon un syndicat. Elle a décroché un (triste) record. Ce week-end, la partie réservée aux femmes de la maison d’arrêt de Nice est devenue “la plus surpeuplée de France avec 79 détenues pour 39 places”, selon le syndicat UFAP-UNSa j…

August 18, 2016

Iran: Qarchak prison, women attempt self-harm due to horrid conditions

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Women Middle East Material conditions Suicide Iran

Around 200 female prisoners detained in the notorious Qarchak Prison near Tehran detailed the horrid conditions of the prison in a letter to Tehran’s Director-General of Prisons.

May 30, 2016

Philippines: inside Davao City's women-friendly jail

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Women Asia Philippines

It’s been said that Rodrigo Duterte is a man of many contradictions. For one, amid his reported womanizing ways, his city has gone the extra mile to protect women’s rights.

May 25, 2016

UK : women forced to give birth in front of male prison guards in case they try to escape prison

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Women Violence United Kingdom

Babies born in prisons have a much higher chance of developing mental health problems, the report claims. The Government is coming under pressure to justify why it imprisons pregnant women and their babies, after a report suggested that the practice can cause significant harm to infants and mothers…

May 24, 2016

Tunisie: Que se passe-t-il dans la prison des femmes de la Manouba?

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Africa Women Tunisia

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May 24, 2016

Tunisie : que se passe-t-il dans la prison des femmes de la Manouba?

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Africa Women Tunisia

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April 7, 2016

Inside Croatia’s only prison for women : the anatomy of absence

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Women Europe Croatia

Marina Paulenka’s The Other Home is an ode to Požega Penitentiary; Croatia’s only women’s prison. The Zagreb-based photographer discusses a project that seeks to question “the notions of freedom inside and outside supervisory institution’s architecture.”