Sentences with phrase «among women in prison»

Women are twice as likely as men to enter prison with a mental health diagnosis, and Indigenous women are vastly over-represented among women in prison and women in solitary.

Not exact matches

In New York's prisons and jails, simple menstruation supplies like pads and tampons can become bargaining chips, used to maintain control by correction officers, or traded among incarcerated women, according to former inmates and advocates on the issue.

«At age 67 and after 35 years in prison, Judy Clark is among the oldest and longest serving women in New York State prison,» the letter states.

She highlighted growing concerns about safety, particularly in dispersal prisons and young offender institutions, and about rates of self - harm among young women; she also warned of «unsuitable, cramped, or unhygienic accommodation» in some prisons.

Never a major box - office presence with his microbudgeted, sex - drenched horror, women - in - prison, and porn films, Franco also spent the majority of his hyper - prolific career toiling in critical derision, often even among genre fans.

For all her anger and bitterness, Minnow never becomes completely cynical, because life in prison is ironically freeing, and the solidarity she finds among other young women miraculously gives her a sense of empowerment and hope.

Among the main female protagonists that inspired this research are Balkis Sharara, Rifat Chadirji's wife who in 1979 carried copies of his works into and out of Abu Ghraib allowing him to author three of his seminal books while in the prison; artist Nuha al - Radi whose diaries of 1990/91 describe the dynamics in the lives of Baghdad's people beyond the news coverage; an unknown young woman who stands out in the festivities of the gymnasium's 1990 new year concert; Fahrelnissa Zeid who was herself an artist (most recently the subject of a major exhibition at Tate Modern) and the wife of the Iraqi Ambassador in London when Le Corbusier received a telegram confirming the approval of his first design proposal for Baghdad; poet Iman Mersal who paid a solidarity visit to Baghdad under siege in 1993; Zaha Hadid whose architectural drawings influenced the imagination of architectural students in the 1990s; and others.

West Coast LEAF described the discriminatory impact of solitary confinement on Indigenous people by highlighting the experiences of Indigenous women, who are the fastest growing segment of the prison population in Canada and are overrepresented both among incarcerated women and among women being held in solitary confinement.

As reported in the Social Justice Report 2002, preliminary findings of a Victorian study on the prison population in that state found a rate of re-offending of 71 % among Indigenous women compared to a rate of 61 % average in 2000 among the female population.

For example, preliminary findings of a Victorian study on the prison population found a rate of re-offending of 71 percent among Indigenous women compared to a rate of 61 percent average in 2000 among the female population.

Based on her experiences at the prison, she co-authored a chapter on «Mood Disorders in Incarcerated Women» in a textbook entitled Health Issues Among Incarcerated Women.

There is also a clear connection between incarceration of Indigenous women and being a victim of violence — there are extremely high rates of substance abuse and reporting of having been a victim of violence among Indigenous female prisoners — this highlights the need for support programs for Indigenous women in prison and also post-release (such as healing and re-integration, housing etc).