Women
Women
Europe
Violence
United Kingdom
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 p…
Women in prison: a "tough place"
Interview
Women
Europe
Health
Mental health
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%).
Mexico: mujeres padecen el olvido en las cárceles
News
Central America and the Caribbean
Women
Access to legal rights
Mexico
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Spain: machismo en el sistema penitenciario y la triple condena que sufren las mujeres en las cárceles españolas
News
Women
Europe
Spain
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France: "aux oubliées", l’initiative pour offrir des livres aux femmes en prison
News
Culture
Women
Europe
Activities
France
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France: femmes détenues et inégalités dans la population carcérale
News
North America
Women
Europe
Minors
Health
France
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Women
Asia
Foreign prisoners
Health
Overcrowding
India
The 2018 statistics on prison must spur the criminal justice system to assess, evaluate and take affirmative steps.
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, i…
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, i…
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, i…
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, i…
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.
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.