Besides being home of a prison for women, Chowchilla is known for a bizarre 1976 incident in which a kidnapped bus with 26 children and their driver was buried in a local rock quarry.
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The number of women in prison has doubled in the past five years despite the fact that few pose a risk to the public the vast majority are serving sentences for diddling social security, shoplifting and other types of non-violent crime.
But she dismissed re-opening the Aberdeen and Inverness female prison facilities, saying many of the women in Cornton Vale had acute physical and mental problems.
She is less successful in her attempts to capture broader sweeps of Russian society her sketches of the street children of a Moscow railway station, for example, and of the inmates of a women's prison, are heartfelt but not terribly perceptive.
One of them confessed to the president she was doing time for stealing a baby because she was barren, while the other two were in prison for beating up other women in fits of jealousy.
Lord Hurd, a former home secretary and former chairman of the Prison Reform Trust, also believes that jail is not the right answer for many of these women.
Nationally, two-thirds of the women who end up in prison didn't have jobs at the time.
Most of the women who end up in prison leave kids on the curb.
Escaped detainees report numerous instances of prison guards carrying out forced abortions on multiple women at a time.
Then, the company will court the female-skewing demographics of Showtime with the women's prison comedy Orange Is the New Black from Weeds creator Jenji Kohan.
"I do not agree with the policy of the Scottish Prison Service which is to concentrate all women prisoners in one site, " he said.
Later that day, the police transferred her to a prison they had set up just for women in a wing of the city's central jail.
In addition to this benefit, prison education appears to increase the safety of the corrections officers because men and women inmates are productively occupied while incarcerated and recruit other prisoners to the program.
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Deputy Prime Minister Hussain al-Sharistani announced the release of 160 prisoners, including 13 women, during a ceremony at the prison on Thursday.
Women make up a small portion of the U.S. prison population--just 7%.
But both of these women and dozens more in Tulsa have been saved from lengthy prison sentences by a billionaire unknown to them and virtually anyone outside of Oklahoma.
The Justice Committee (at 9.30am) continues its look at the treatment of women by the criminal justice system, with evidence from pressure groups the Prison Reform Trust and the Howard League for Penal Reform.
Those were accused of "illicit relations with the occupiers", but I was told that nearly all young women on territories reclaimed by the Red Army were suspected of this and taken prison.
The number of men in prison for drug-related offences may have tripled in the past ten years (and the number of women has quadrupled) but the overwhelming sense is of a mission that has stealthily got out of hand.
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