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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.
Highlights of this week include a fundraising performance by Al-Hannouneh group tonight, a night of Sufi music by Turkish artist Mercan Dede at the Citadel tomorrow, and a concert by a new quartet led by bassist and composer Yacoub Abu Ghosh at Mohtaraf Remal on Thursday.
Over the next three days the Royal Film Commission is holding screenings of Syrian …
This week’s agenda features a storytelling and puppet show night, poetry reading at Mohtaraf Remal, live gigs by local musicians, Farida’s Iraqi Maqam ensemble, cycling nights, Ramadan comedy shows, and more.
If you like local stand up comedy, you’re in for a treat, as comedians Nadim Masri, Mohammad Lahham, Fares Haddadeen and Nazeer Khawaldeh will be performing this coming Saturday at …
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
can you explain why?
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
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…
Well, but how feasible is prison? A thief goes to prison, learns the ropes, gets introduced to more contacts, and voila…
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?
Off the top of my mind, Community service
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.
Saraha, woman or not, just as she was strong enough to do the crime, she should be strong enough to pay her dues.
Saraha, woman or not, just as she was strong enough to do the crime, she should be strong enough to pay her dues.
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…