Inside Portugal's toughest women's prison where mum who 'abandoned children in woods' is being held

Marine Rousseau, 41, is accused of leaving her two sons to fend for themselves in the woods after allegedly leaving them ...

Woman sent to Portugal's toughest prison after children abandoned in woods

A French mother and her partner have been imprisoned in Portugal after allegedly abandoning two young children in the woods ...

A look inside Japan's largest prison for women

Japan has recently carried out reforms to its prison system, but inside Tochigi, its biggest women's prison, strict ...
NPR

Why women have an especially tough time in Senegal's prisons

The first time she entered the prison, she felt as if she were going to faint. The year was 2021. Maïmouna Diouf had been found guilty of infanticide — a charge she denies, claiming she gave birth to ...
The New Arab

'Shackled, blindfolded and abused': Palestinian women detail arrests, night raids and inhumane conditions inside Israel's Damon Prison

Released Palestinian women describe months in Damon Prison marked by overcrowding, night raids and psychological pressure, ...