2.5.3 Women in Prison

The government has also been concerned about situation of imprisoned women.

(b) The provision of more female police officers to supervise female prisoners

Women prisoners are subjected to gender based violence while subject to investigation and in detention.

During his mission, the independent expert raised the issue of the treatment of female prisoners in Somalia.

Female prisoners faced torture, humiliation and harsh prison conditions.

National data indicates that 77 per cent of female prisoners had previously been imprisoned and, in some states and territories, almost 85 per cent had previously been in custody.

Every possible effort is made to staff the prison with female officers. In any event, the prison guards and ancillary personnel must be women.

The reasons behind moving the prisoners between the two locations remain unclear.

It was correct to say that no special law protected pregnant women prisoners, and the statement concerning their special treatment referred to administrative measures to protect pregnant women prisoners because of the non existence of a special law.

A very small proportion of Namibia's prison population consists of women.

She also noted the issue of rape of women prisoners, which went largely unpunished. Ms.

The indigenous background of female prisoners was assessed as a factor in the overall female imprisonment rate.

A total of 22 of the female prisoners were married and 18 were mothers (Ibid., p. 42).6 Women prisoners were subjected to gender based violence while under investigation and detention (A 60 271, para.

(j) Leniency measures taken by the Government of the Sudan, which led to the release of a large number of imprisoned women

In the case of female prisoners specifically, it is even worse close to 70 per cent of all convictions.

I requested to visit the Telmond Central Prison (Hasharoon), where female Palestinian security detainees were reportedly being held.

Women prisoners confirmed that they were housed separately and made no complaints about abuse to the Special Representative.

Today's performers, like Rhodessa Jones, work in women's prisons, helping women prisoners articulate the pain of incarceration, while today's playwrights and directors work with youth gangs to find alternate channels to violence and more and more and more.

In addition, the Women's Bureau had given priority to its work with women's prisons throughout the country, in particular by improving facilities.

A significant factor among indigenous female prisoners is the high rate of recidivism.

Some of the women had given birth during their detention, and in such cases the newborn are allowed to remain with the mothers until two years of age.

(a) The separation of remand (unconvicted) prisoners from convicted prisoners and minors from adult prisoners and the separate treatment and detention of women prisoners

Prior to that, according to a member of the police, the female prisoners were raped and three of the male prisoners were castrated, along with further tortures.

d. Community based organizations are funded to provide pre and post release services to all women prisoners.

Furthermore, the Committee is concerned at the significant number of women in the prison population and the fact that juveniles are often held in adult cells (arts. 7, 10 and 24).

The Forum recommends that Member States investigate the alarming rate of incarceration of indigenous women and communicate their findings to the Permanent Forum.

400. Asked to clarify a presumed contradiction between the second and the third periodic reports regarding the treatment of pregnant women prisoners, the representative said that there was no contradiction between the two reports.

To be put through the stress of the trial, convicted of murdering them and to spend time in a women's prison, where all the other prisoners think you killed your children is a really awful thing to happen to someone.

Indigenous women are incarcerated 20 per cent more than non indigenous women, which impacts on housing rights and housing for family members.

On the issue of imprisoned mothers, the representative noted that the Quakers had been preparing a draft commentary on the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, which lacked a gender perspective, given that it was drafted many years ago.

Ms. O'Connor underlined the importance of the issue of women in prison and noted that the quality and type of care afforded to children with mothers in prison varied between States and in different regions within a given country.

She emphasized the role of economic factors in increasing the number of women in prison, noting that most of the crimes for which women were in prison were drug related and that these crimes were largely motivated by lack of economic opportunities.

Today's performers, like Rhodessa Jones, work in women's prisons, helping women prisoners articulate the pain of incarceration, while today's playwrights and directors work with youth gangs to find alternate channels to violence and more and more and more.

This was one of the recommendations of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for human rights in Cambodia in his report. 1 On the recommendation of the Commission, the Government has agreed to separate female from male prisoners and to implement several other concrete suggestions in conformity with human rights.

At the time of my visit to the women's section of Ramleh prison, the status of female Palestinian security prisoners was as follows 2 newly arrived, 2 administrative detainees, 2 juveniles on remand, 25 on remand and 19 sentenced prisoners.