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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.
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Blanche Monnier (French pronunciation: [blɑ̃ʃ mɔnje]; 1 March 1849 – 13 October 1913), often known in France as la Séquestrée de Poitiers [a] (roughly, "The Confined Woman of Poitiers"), [1] was a woman from Poitiers, France, who was secretly kept locked in a small room by her aristocratic mother and brother for 25 years.
Snapshots taken in the 1970s show women wearing their own clothes ... of female prisoners paint an intimate picture of womanhood and identity ... teaching photography to inmates from 1977 to 1984 ...
The number of women in state or federal prison increased by almost 5% from the end of 2021 to the end of 2022. Spike in female prisoners is move in the wrong direction, experts say Skip to main ...
With the Allies driving deep into France and George Patton's Third US Army heading towards Paris, the decision was taken by the Germans to send their most valuable French prisoners to Germany. On 8 August 1944, Szabo, shackled to SOE wireless operator Denise Bloch , was entrained with other male and female prisoners, including several SOE ...
"Bringing activities here is a way to re-socialize (the women), to make them think about change," said Ana Cristina Faulharber, coordinator of female and LGBT prisons in Rio de Janeiro. Show ...
Most of the British families and single women were transferred here from Saint-Denis and Besançon. In early 1942, women over sixty, men over seventy-five and children under sixteen were released. The overall population was thus reduced to about 2,400. The inmates included a number of North-American families and women.