The United Nations defines violence against women as «any act of gender - based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or
arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.»
Justice Marrocco ruled that this
arbitrary and potentially biased system is improper given the severe
deprivation of liberty and security
of the person that takes place when an inmate is segregated.