Women prisoners and the United Nations

Among several workshops presented by QUNO at Canterbury was one on the treatment of women prisoners. Oliver Robertson explores how collaborative Quaker efforts have helped to improve their conditions

by Oliver Robertson 5th August 2011

If everyone is equal before the law, why should women prisoners be treated differently? And if people are meant to receive the same punishment for the same offence, why should offenders with children receive different sentences from those without? Answer: because they are different, they do live in different situations and the same punishments can affect them very differently.