Five women share a 20-square-metre cell crawling with rats and lizards. Sonia has lost more than 20 kilos on the meagre prison diet.
What happens when your mum goes to prison?
The statistics alone are staggering, but it's the human stories that will change how you think about justice.
Ireland: How poverty and trauma fuel women’s imprisonment.
In overcrowded prisons running at 163% capacity, women sleep on mattresses while dealing with untreated trauma from domestic violence, sexual abuse, and grief.
PRESS RELEASE: With People in Detention Vulnerable to Uncontrollable spreads of COVID-19, Ground-Breaking Research Investigates the Gruelling Reality of Female Imprisonment in Sierra Leone
AdvocAid First comprehensive study of women in Sierra Leone’s prisons finds 62% of those interviewed were pre-trial detainees Pretrial detention contributes to overcrowding, which is alarming with the current COVID-19 pandemic 34% interviewees had been arrested and detained for survival economic or petty crime Almost three quarters of women interviewed...