Women and Prison: News from the Web

Closed women’s prison has new job

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:21 GMT

Colorado Women’s Correctional Facility in Canon City has a new mission to provide job for inmates.

Treatment of female prisoners criticised

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:11 GMT

A number of women prisoners were ordered to strip naked in front of male staff and asked to sit on a special chair, known as the BOSS, which scans internal cavities for contraband.

Prison through the eyes of a child

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:58 GMT

A five-year-old boy who was born inside a Prey Sar Correctional Centre, says he would like to leave the prison and be free, but he doesn’t want to leave his mother.

Editorial: Alton woman’s commuted sentence highlights racial disparity

Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:05 GMT

President Barack Obama used his commutation power for the first time to free an Alton woman who already served over 10 years of a 22-year prison term for selling crack cocaine. Had she sold a similar weight of the more expensive powder cocaine, her sentence would have been up to 100 times shorter.

‘It was either him or me’

Sat, 26 Nov 2011 18:05 GMT

A 72 year old inmate of the only women's prison in Serbia, built in 1874 in the eastern town of Pozar-evac, kill her husband for abusing, torturing and beating her for decades.

Nashville prisoner sues Metro for millions after having miscarriage

Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:23 GMT

A Nashville woman, who claims that prison staff denied her requests to take a pregnancy test, has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit in Davidson County Circuit Court alleging constitutional violations, negligence, medical malpractice, wrongful death and other claims.

State creates video aimed at high-risk female offenders

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:51 GMT

Female inmates from the Indiana women prison help make a video that warn young women of choices they make in life.

In Punjab almost 80 children of incarcerated parents are currently living in prisons.

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 19:03 GMT

The National Programme Manager at the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child SPARC, Abdullah Khoso, said till June 2011 there were as many as 180 children in different prisons across the country.

It is wrong to arrest parents in front of their children.

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:56 GMT

In Punjab almost 80 children of incarcerated parents are currently living in prisons.

Prisoner swap deal brings shame for some

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:30 GMT

A prisoner swap agreement between the UAE and India signed yesterday has unintended consequences for some of the 40 Indian women in UAE jails. They fear returning to India will reveal to family and friends they were convicted of prostitution.