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Some women selected for forced immigration were chained and marched across France, a display intended to deter potential criminals. During a protest by 150 female prisoners in 1719, six were shot and a dozen were wounded; after a freezing winter, they were still shipped to the settlement.
Entrance to the prison. The Centre pénitentiaire de Rennes is a women's prison of the French Prison Service in Rennes, Brittany, France. Since 2008, it has been the only women's prison in France. [1] Its operations began in 1878. [2] It was designed by the architect, Alfred-Nicolas Normand.
The women's prison, set on an isolated island, is run by a man who impersonates a doctor, Carlos Costa. In fact, he is a killer who murdered the actual doctor of that name, whose name he then assumed. Assisting him is a monocled lesbian woman known only as The Wardress who regulates the prison with an iron fist.
Pages in category "Women's prisons in France" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. R. Centre pénitentiaire de Rennes
Established in 1878 as a reformatory confining women for the crime of having children out of wedlock, by the 1970s much of the prison’s population were being held on counts of shoplifting and ...
Women's prisons in France (1 P) + French prison administrators (1 C, 1 P) D. Defunct prisons in France (4 C, 13 P) L. Prisons in Lyon (2 P) P. Prisons in Paris (1 C, 2 P)
Danielle Trottier had the idea of making a series on the environment of a women's prison after reading Justice Louise Arbour's 1996 report of the Commission of Inquiry into Certain Events at the Prison for Women in Kingston, [5] Trottier's study of that report was the initial motivation for her concern over the plight of imprisoned women: "I cried and was angry after reading this report," she ...
[18] [19] The accused, who faced prison sentences of up to 20 years if found guilty, ranged in age from 25 to 72 and came from numerous walks of life – firefighter, IT worker, journalist, nurse, plumber, prison guard, and truck driver, with 41 of them being from Vaucluse. [5] [20] [21] Many had partners and children. Most were charged with ...