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Reproductive Justice and Gender

Rape, Torture and Humiliation in Women's Prisons: A Global State of Crisis

By Lys Anzia, Women News Network. Posted September 23, 2008.


Physical and psychological abuse are rampant in women's prisons from the U.S. to Canada to Pakistan.
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Lys Anzia is the director of Women News Network, an award-winning playwright, (2007) Pushcart Prize nominee and humanitarian journalist.

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