News from the Web
Nov 30, 2011
Closed women’s prison has new job
Colorado Women’s Correctional Facility in Canon City has a new mission to provide job for inmates.
Nov 28, 2011
Treatment of female prisoners criticised
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.
Nov 28, 2011
Prison through the eyes of a child
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.
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.
Nov 26, 2011
‘It was either him or me’
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.
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.
Female inmates from the Indiana women prison help make a video that warn young women of choices they make in life.
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.