A Study of Women Prisoners in Kimbibiti and Debere-Birhan Prisons
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2008-03
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
This research paper tries to see the living situation of women
in Kimbibiti and Debre-Birhan prisons. It mainly assesses
the suitability of prisons for women prisoners in terms of the
prisoners in terms of the privacy they get while they are
imprisoned, personal hygiene Issues, medical service,
nutrition, vocational training, and delivery of rehabilitation
programmes. It also assesses the causes of committing crime
for selected women inmates. Lastly, it tries to examme
problems encountered during their stay at prison.
Like men, there are so many reasons for women commit
crime and contribute to the tariff of most offence categories.
Women commit all offence categories. Some of the well
known offences women commit are theft, infanticide,
homicide, robbery, perjury, and abortion. However fewer
women than men are coming to the criminal justice system.
Women face multiples of problems while they are living in
the pnson community. The situation m the prison
community does not totally fit to women in most cases since
the system long time ago. They do not take women's needs
into consideration when they were built. Due to this fact
many of the prisons and the situations in it are male
oriented and designed for men.
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Women Prisoners in Kimbibiti