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Picture of the Day | Women’s Prison in Juwaideh

February 3, 2010 View Comments

IMG 9218 570x379 Picture of the Day | Womens Prison in Juwaideh

Inmates at a handicrafts workshop at the Women’s Correctional and Rehabilitation Center in Juwaideh.
This is the only women’s correction and rehabilitation center in Jordan. It has around 235 inmates, a third of them non-Jordanian, according to prison officials. Around 70 women are there under administrative detention. For more information read Amnesty International’s reports here.

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  • Ola says:

    The picture and the whole idea of women's prison makes my blood curdle. I'm looking at the woman in the picture, without seeing her face, and I think to myself: what did she do? And to think that she's spending her day in a confined facility… the notion is suffocating

  • Mohanned says:

    can you explain why?

  • Ola says:

    I don't know, maybe it's just instinct, the idea of having one's freedom put on hold, having your life passing before your eyes knowing that you're stuck for the time being

    I don't believe in jail as an effective punishment

  • khaledhakim says:

    Well I would like to say I agree with Ola, but the fact of the matter is that some people trespass onto other people's rights and freedoms and thus need to be separated from society. I'm trying to imagine another form of punishment that could take the place of prisons… but nothing feasible comes to mind…

  • Ola says:

    Well, but how feasible is prison? A thief goes to prison, learns the ropes, gets introduced to more contacts, and voila…

  • Mohanned says:

    That's now how prisons work. The idea of keeping someone behind bars,for say stealing, is to minimize the chance of him/her committing the same crime for the time he/she spends in prison. A thief in prison means less thefts. The “correction” aspect is another one.

    I understand what you are saying, but what alternatives do you have? Capital punishment? No punishment at all?

  • ola says:

    Off the top of my mind, Community service

  • Mohanned says:

    Don't let Criminologists hear you :) It is a science that I am not very familiar with, but community service might be good for misdemeanors, not for dangerous crimes such as theft,burglary,rape,child molestation,murder, assisting in murder, violence, child abuse,etc..

    You get my point.

  • Zenah says:

    Saraha, woman or not, just as she was strong enough to do the crime, she should be strong enough to pay her dues.

  • Zenah says:

    Saraha, woman or not, just as she was strong enough to do the crime, she should be strong enough to pay her dues.

  • Samijeancindy45 says:

    Too, you can't give blood for 3 years. It was suffering and I was taken out on, from the other people's aggressions in jail. I was close to be murdered. I had great relief to be out of political bars…

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