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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.
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
Inmate name Register number Photo Citizenship Status Details Zacarias Moussaoui: 51427-054: France Serving six consecutive life sentences. French citizen and Al-Qaeda operative, pleaded guilty to terrorism conspiracy charges in 2005 for playing a key role in planning the September 11 attacks by helping the hijackers obtain flight lessons, money and material used in the attacks.
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 ...
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.
In France it is illegal under the criminal code to expose “intimate portions of one's body in plain view in a space that is accessible to the public”. It is punishable by one year in prison ...
Approximately 741,000 women are incarcerated in correctional facilities, a 17% increase since 2010 and the female prison population has been increasing across all continents. [1] [2] The list of countries by incarceration rate includes a main table with a column for the historical and current percentage of prisoners who are female.
PARIS (Reuters) -France's new government is open to toughening immigration laws, the interior minister said on Wednesday, under pressure from the far-right National Rally (RN) after the arrest of ...