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Women in Prison is a national charity that supports women affected by the criminal justice system and campaigns to end the harm caused to women, their families and our communities by imprisonment.
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17 de ene. de 2023 · Women’s prisons are a clear reflection of the discriminations, oppressions and inequalities that women suffer in our communities, and consequently, an excellent feminist watchtower to understand patriarchal oppression, to fight and resist it.
27 de mar. de 2017 · El estudio de las cárceles de mujeres y de las mujeres encarceladas ha sido, en España, un tema largamente olvidado por la academia, especialmente por la investigación sociológica, que no le ha prestado la atención que merecía hasta recién entrado el siglo xxi.
31 de dic. de 2021 · From 2020 to 2021, the number of women in prisons fell just 0.5%, compared to a 1.4% drop among men in prisons. In ten states, the number of men in prison continued to fall, but the number of women remained flat or actually increased; the reverse was true in just two states.
28 de nov. de 2018 · Judy, nearly 30 percent of all incarcerated women worldwide are in the United States. And the number of women in U.S. prisons has risen more than 700 percent in the last 40 years.
27 de abr. de 2022 · In this article, we acknowledge the global treatment of women in prison as a form of State violence against women and provide policy reform for incarcerated women worldwide.
A new report in the US shows one in every 15 women in prison – over 6,600 women — are serving a sentence of life (with or without parole) or a virtual life sentence of 50 years or more. The nearly 2,000 women serving sentences of life without parole can expect to die in prison.
