Healed Walls, Unhealed Wounds: Why Prison Reforms Fail Women Offenders in India?
Ipsita Sapra
Abstract:Incarcerated women have always been an intriguing category. Socially ostracised, economically impoverished and culturally stigmatised women in prisons of India are a small but marginalised category. While the country has witnessed a series of significant efforts at prison reforms, these are not informed by a feminist reading of the condition of women. As such, reforms in women’s prison follow templates shaped on Western models developed for men. Based on a study of incarcerated women in Telangana, a state in I… Show more
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