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Snapshots taken in the 1970s show women wearing their own clothes and posing in cells embellished with personal effects, much like a college dorm room. Vintage polaroids of female prisoners paint ...
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.
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All non-prison issue personal clothing sent in must be approved before it can be used by prisoners. Although female prisoners are not subject to the same rules and do not have to wear uniform under government legislation, individual female prisons are able to set their own regulations regarding uniforms. [22]
A French police officer has been ordered to pay 1,000 euros, or approximately $1,000 after he described a woman who filed a sexual assault complaint as a "whore", a source close to the case said ...
Men and women who were arrested had to wear a paper capirote in public as sign of public humiliation. The capirote was worn during the session of an Auto-da-fé. The colour was different, conforming to the judgement of the office. People who were condemned to be executed wore a red coroza. Other punishments used different colours.
The female victim, who asked to remain anonymous out of fear of retaliation, told The Times she woke up at 4 a.m. to find two men wearing hooded sweatshirts, masks and gloves in her bedroom.
The first American female correctional facility with dedicated buildings and staff was the Mount Pleasant Female Prison in Ossining, New York; the facility had some operational dependence on nearby Sing Sing, a men's prison. [46] In the 1930s, 34 women's prisons were built, by 1990 there were 71 women's prisons in the country, but only five ...