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Footage inside Washington State’s Correctional Center for Women shows a distressed inmate sounding off about the prison’s transgender friendly policy. As a result of the policy violent male offenders are put in positions where they can take advantage of female inmate including in the same cell.

This month marks ten years since the death of Pauline Campbell. Pauline became a formidable campaigner exposing the harm inflicted on women within the prison system. This followed the death of her 18-year-old daughter in Styal prison in 2003. It was campaigning by Pauline Campbell, bereaved families and Inquest around the sharp rise in deaths across the women’s estate, and in particular deaths at Styal in the early 2000s, that persuaded the then Labour government to commission Baroness Jean Corston to conduct an independent review of women in the criminal justice system. Corston’s ground-breaking report, published in March 2007, offered...

PANEVEZYS, Lithuania, Nov. 20 — The way Laurinas Sheshkus tells it, the creative types at LNK TV were searching last summer for a gimmick to rise above the airwaves clutter when someone proposed staging a beauty contest in the women's prison in this stolid town. Associated Press Participants in the "Miss Captivity" beauty contest on stage at the women's prison in Panevezys, Lithuania. "It was, like, a joke," said Mr. Sheshkus, LNK's creative director. Worse still, it was a joke that had the potential to exploit some of the country's least fortunate young women for the sake of a few...