A proposed law change would introduce a new category of low-value theft. Penalties would affect women more than men and put their daughters at higher of sexual harm.
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Incarcerated women need trauma-informed support and mental health services.
For Mother’s Day, we look at the fastest growing prison population in Canada — racialized women, many of whom are mothers. Experts connect the trend to rising poverty and the attempts to cope with it.
Despite Australia spending so much money on prisons, incarcerated women’s reproductive health care is lacking to the point of being degrading.
The details of Ms A’s case reinforce what campaigners and midwives have been saying for years.
Nearly two-thirds of incarcerated mothers have never received a visit from their children. A scholar who studies women in prison explains the barriers that families face and how they might be removed.
Research offers an insight into the experiences of pregnant women left to give birth in their cells without midwives
A new female offender strategy in England and Wales plans to put fewer women in prisons. Here’s why that’s so important.
A staggering 70 per cent of female inmates are back in prison within two years of their release. Basic health and dental care could help change this, according to new research.
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Senior Lecturer in Midwifery, University of Hertfordshire
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Professor of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia
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Retired Associate Professor, Research fellow, Durham University
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Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of British Columbia
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Researcher in Prison Health, University of British Columbia
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Assistant Professor, Sociology, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Ontario Coordinator at Walls to Bridges Program
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Professor of Sociology and Criminology, Villanova University
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PhD Candidate, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Penology, University of Portsmouth
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Associate Professor in Criminology, Auckland University of Technology