SAVE INNOCENT WOMEN IN PRISONS
|
|
There are currently about 500 000 women in prison worldwide
5.04% of the total prison population of 9,949,696 worldwide. 3/4 have children.
See Worldwide repartition here
Women in prison have experienced victimization, unstable family life, school and work failure, and substance abuse and mental health problems. Criminologists have argued that the prison system is ill-equipped to deal with these issues, which are better managed outside the punitive environment of the prison (Owen and Bloom; Owen). Key issues include:
Separation from children and significant others.
National surveys of women prisoners find that 3/4 of them were mothers, with 2/3 having children under the age of 18. Mothers in prison face multiple problems in maintaining relationships with their children and encounter obstacles created both by the correctional system and child welfare agencies.
Lack of substance abuse treatment.
Although they are very likely to have an extensive history of drug and alcohol use, only little receive any treatment within the justice system.
Physical & mental health care.
Women offenders often have specific health needs due to their risky sexual and drug-using behavior prior to imprisonment
Sexual abuse.
The patterns of sexual abuse and coercion established in the early days of women's imprisonment continue in the contemporary era. 4 key issues:
(1) the inability to escape one's abuser;
(2) ineffectual or nonexistent investigative and grievance procedures;
(3) lack of employee accountability (either criminally or administratively);
(4) little or no public concern.
Read more
Capital punishment in China is usually administered to offenders of serious and violent crimes, such as aggravated murder and drug trafficking and executes the highest number of people annually although Iran and Singapore have higher per capita execution rates.
Human rights groups and foreign governments have criticized China's use of the death penalty for a variety of reasons, including its application for non-violent offenses, allegations of the use of torture to extract confessions, legal proceedings that do not meet international standards, and the government's refusal to publish statistics on the death penalty.
The Dui Hua Foundation estimated that in 2009, 5000 people were executed in China, far more than all other nations combined. The precise number of executions is regarded as a state secret.
How many innocents amongst these women? WATCH unique video about women on death row in China
AN EXAMPLE IN SOUDAN
READ STUNNING STORY OF MERIAM, sentenced to 100 lashes for adultery and hanging for apostosy in 2014, freed after international public outcry.
Then eight months pregnant, she was told that her death sentence would be deferred for two years to allow her to nurse her unborn baby.
AN EXAMPLE IN SAUDI ARABIA
Sri Lankan maid Rizana Nafeek was beheaded despite international appeals for her release
Foreign workers are being warned of the 'deadly risks' they face in Saudi Arabia, with more than 45 maids awaiting execution despite growing anger at the country's mistreatment of migrants.
The death row prisoners include a domestic worker convicted of beating her employer to death when he allegedly tried to rape her.
In 2013, authorities in the Middle Eastern country ignored international pleas and beheaded maid Rizana Nafeek, 24, who was convicted of killing a baby despite protesting her innocence.
Read more
The death row prisoners include a domestic worker convicted of beating her employer to death when he allegedly tried to rape her.
In 2013, authorities in the Middle Eastern country ignored international pleas and beheaded maid Rizana Nafeek, 24, who was convicted of killing a baby despite protesting her innocence.
Read more
This woman was raped and became pregnant. When she told the authorities she was asked to provide 4 witnesses. They executed her while she was 2 months pregnant. This photo was taken before a crane was used to lift her neck up and suffocate her to death. Source: Internet
EUROPE
10 things to know about women in prison
(SOURCE: World health Organisation)
- Although women constitute a very small proportion of the total prison population in Europe, 4–5% on average, the number of women in prison is increasing rapidly.
- In Europe, there are about 100 000 women in prison on any given day.
- Most offences for which women are imprisoned are non-violent, property or drug related.
- Many women in prison are mothers and usually the primary or sole carers for their children. Around 10 000 babies and children in Europe are estimated to be affected by their mother’s imprisonment.
- In most European countries, babies and young children can stay in prison with their mothers: 3 years is the most common age limit. Facilities vary widely between countries.
- Mental illnesses are overrepresented among women prisoners; 80% of women in prison have an identifiable mental illness and two thirds suffer from a substance-related disorder.
- At least 75% of women entering European prisons are estimated to have problems with drug and alcohol use. Further, women prisoners are more likely than male prisoners to inject drugs.
- The prevalence of HIV and other infectious diseases is often higher among women prisoners.
- Women prisoners are more likely to harm themselves and commit suicide.
- Women prisoners are three times more likely to report having experienced physical or sexual abuse before their imprisonment.
(SOURCE: World health Organisation)
NEWS
APRIL 2015
257 Migrant workers on death row around the world
March 2015
44 women inmates awaiting clemency in PAKISTAN
|
|
