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fromwww.theguardian.com
21 hours ago

Groundbreaking' UN agreement on justice for women to include those in prison for first time

The UN Commission on the Status of Women adopted groundbreaking conclusions explicitly addressing female incarceration, recognizing links between discriminatory laws, violence, and women's imprisonment for the first time in 70 years.
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fromTruthout
3 months ago

This Program Gives Direct Cash Support to Incarcerated Women

Female incarceration in the U.S. has surged, producing severe economic, social, and recidivism harms that disproportionately affect poor women and mothers.
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

How many women are in prison and on death row around the world? in charts

More than 733,000 women and girls are held in penal institutions globally, according to the Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research, either as pre-trial detainees or remand prisoners, or having been convicted and sentenced. The actual total is thought to be much higher, as figures for five countries are not available and those for China are incomplete. Women are
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