Rights of Female Prisoners

RIGHTS OF FEMALE PRISONERS
Rights of Female Prisoners
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Thesis statement
This paper argues the condition of women in the prison together with examination of
the privileges and the rights of the women in the prison. The essay argues on the gender
specific needs and the rights of the women in the prison that are highlighted in UN
documents and whether they are being systematically followed.
The essay argues the importance to emphasize on ensuring the fundamental rights to
the women prisoners who have been suffering pathetic condition.
This essay highlights the condition of the female prisoners of the Canada and the
challenges faced by them on the evidence of the violation of their basic human rights during
their imprisonment
Introduction
Each and every individual has their right towards dignity that furthermore enshrined
in several of the conventions and rules on an international basis (Lawrence, 2003).
Prisoners are generally the affected one regarding their right towards the dignity due
to their imprisonment and the view of the prison as the centres for the reformation of the
criminals.

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Women, who generally constitute a very low proportion of the general population in
the prison have been facing several violations of their rights together with the denial of many
services and access towards fundamental necessities (Naghibi 2016).
The requirements and needs of women prisoners are different from the male
prisoners. Women in prison tend to need some of the facilities for their health care.
This includes helping them in case of childbirth, for caring for the children in prison
and towards receiving counselling to the guards against the chances or the possibility of
sexual assault and rape (Chunn & Lacombe, 2000).
The essay explains an in-depth analysis regarding the nature of the challenges and the
problems faced by women residing in jail and to study the consequences of the imprisonment
of the inmates and their connection with their members of the family.
The importance of public health of the female prisoners is insufficiently recognized.
In the current decade, there has been a marked higher rate of the number of the
prisoners in the United States.
The population of the women in the prison have been rising up to 71% as per the
World Prison Population List (Seymour, 2017). With the increase in rate of the crimes and
the violation towards policies and the regulations, women in the country are often taken in
custody (Rubenstein et al., 2016).
This factor of the evidence raises the question regarding the growing number of health
disparities which are evidenced to be true for the women prisoners of Canada, United States

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who do not receive proper health treatment and co-operation of their right towards the
wellbeing and health.
The health status of the prisoners are an inevitable part of the public health (Halter, E.
(2018).
Women in the prison generally tend to have more health requirements that are specific
as compared to the male prisoners.
Women prisoners in the United States tend to suffer frequently from issues and
challenges of mental health that includes post traumatic disorder of stress, self-harming and
self-destruction, depression , anxiety and more (Rubenstein et al., 2016).
The female prisoners as per the report by the prison association suffer more than the
male and the other general population in the context of the mental health as high as more than
90% (Dixey et al., 2015).
Furthermore, as per the evidences, the women prisoners are much more vulnerable
towards self-harming and the commitment of suicide inside the prison.
In the United States, female prisoners are four times more likely to have experienced
sexual and physical abuse within the prisoner and within the tine period of the imprisonment
resulting in serious mental health and poor physical condition. Injection of drugs, risk of
sexually transmitted infections like gonorrhoea, chlamydia, HIV/AIDS and syphilis are some
of the major factors that tend to influence the female prisoners furthermore towards
prostitution and sexual abuses (Halter, 2018).
Thus this evidence highlights one of the major challenges of female prisoners’
regaarding their right of the wellbeing, their right to life and the right to safe and healthy
conditions in the prison which are violated by these factors stated above.