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    When Indigenous peoples challenged these laws, they were imprisoned. In English law, imprisonment is the restraint of a person's liberty. The 17th century...
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  • Imprisoned Women (Swedish: Kvinnor i fångenskap) is a 1943 Swedish drama film directed by Olof Molander and starring Gunnar Sjöberg, Elsie Albiin and Gunn...
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  • 20th century and continues to the present day. Their stories feature imprisoned women who are subjected to sexual and physical abuse, typically by sadistic...
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    Ireland's last Magdalen asylum imprisoned women until 1996, there are no records to account for "almost a full century" of women who now "constitute the nation's...
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  • Corrections and Community Supervision as a defendant. The many imprisoned and formerly imprisoned women in New York who filed claims under the ASA alleged that...
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    Harriet Walter (category English women writers)
    Britons imprisoned overseas and their families; and Clean Break, a charity and theatre company dedicated to sharing the stories of imprisoned women and transforming...
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    State Correctional Institution – Muncy (category Women's prisons in Pennsylvania)
    women. In 1920, Muncy Industrial Home opened as a training school for imprisoned women between 16 and 30. In 1953 the industrial home became a part of the...
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    bill that is intended to increase access of menstrual products for imprisoned women. Historically, the word "tampon" originated from the medieval French...
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    the launch of Operation Barbarossa, an estimated total of 5,000 women were imprisoned, who were fed gradually decreasing hunger rations. By the end of...
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  • Lualhati Bautista (category Filipino women novelists)
    the same year was Bulaklak ng City Jail, based on her novel about imprisoned women, which won almost all awards for that year from various awards guilds...
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  • killed during the Holocaust, two million were women. Between 1941 and 1945, Jewish women were imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps or hiding to avoid...
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  • (fictional) U.S. Senator Tom Leighton visits his wife Emily, one of the imprisoned women. News of their treatment leaks to the media after Emily secretly passes...
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    population. Those imprisoned in China, Russia, and the United States comprise the great majority of incarcerated people, including women, in the world. Trends...
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  • who would have made the best laborers in the far north, they also imprisoned women, children, and old people in large numbers. The sheer illogic of the...
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    Millicent Fawcett (category International Alliance of Women people)
    disease to their clients, to be imprisoned. Women could be arrested on suspicion of being a prostitute and imprisoned for refusing consent to examinations...
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  • Indefinite imprisonment or indeterminate imprisonment is the imposition of a sentence of imprisonment with no definite period of time set during sentencing...
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    Reproductive justice (category Women's rights)
    helplessness as imprisoned women lose say in the treatment of their bodies. For example, prisons often perform forced hysterectomies on imprisoned women. Article...
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  • Unité 9 (category Imprisonment and detention of women)
    Prison for Women in Kingston, Trottier's study of that report was the initial motivation for her concern over the plight of imprisoned women: "I cried...
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  • Maria Kalyuzhnaya (category 19th-century Ukrainian women)
    by poisoning in the Kara katorga, in protest against the abuse of imprisoned women by the prison authorities. Maria Vasilyevna Kalyuzhnaya was born in...
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    Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (category 15th-century English women)
    church. Yale University Press. Roy, Neha (2023). Henry VIII's Imprisoned Women: The Women of the Tower, Pen and Sword History, ISBN 978-1-3990-9579-2 Portals:...
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    The incarceration of women in the United States refers to the imprisonment of women in both prisons and jails in the United States. There are approximately...
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    prison. The Maternity Alliance 2013 Dabrowski, Milne (13 August 2022). "IMPRISONED WOMEN AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: A Site of Reproductive Rights Violation?"...
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    Christina Gyllenstierna (category Women in 16th-century warfare)
    Austria. Whatever the truth of this, it is confirmed that many of the imprisoned women and children died, among them Christina's daughter Magdalena, half...
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    individual kitchen attempted to move away from the domestic regime that imprisoned women. Instead, the government tried to implement public dining, socialized...
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  • Robert Hansen (category History of women in Alaska)
    and 1983. Hansen abducted, raped and murdered at least seventeen women. Many of the women abducted were released by Hansen into the wilderness and hunted...
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  • Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters is a collection of autobiographies by the inmates of the York Correctional Institution...
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    twenty European women and girls were imprisoned in two houses. Over a period of three weeks, as Japanese units passed by the houses, the women and their daughters...
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    FreeThe20 campaign (category Imprisonment and detention)
    campaign to call attention to women who are political prisoners around the world. The campaign names twenty women who are imprisoned unjustly. Samantha Power...
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  • Paradise Road (1997 film) (category Women in prison films)
    Beresford, about a group of English, American, Dutch, and Australian women who are imprisoned by the Japanese in Sumatra during World War II. It stars Glenn...
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    reasonably close to the U.S. capital. The vast majority of the women were imprisoned for drug and alcohol charges imposed during the Prohibition era...
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