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Beijing Women's Prison (simplified Chinese: 北京市女子监狱; traditional Chinese: 北京市女子監獄; pinyin: Běijīng Shì Nǚzǐ Jiānyù) is a prison in Daxing District, Beijing, China. [1] It was established in 1999. It is operated by the Beijing Municipal Administration of Prisons.
Ngawang Sangdrol (born in Lhasa, Tibet, in 1977) is a former political prisoner, imprisoned at the age of 13 by the Government of the People's Republic of China, for peacefully demonstrating against the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1992. She was at first held for eight months without trial, before being sentenced to a three-year prison term.
An acute problem was the overcrowding of facilities for female prisoners, whose number tripled between 1985 and 1997. This influx was mainly driven by mainland Chinese women convicted of prostitution, working without a proper visa, and drug trafficking. There was also a shortage of female staff to work with female prisoners.
Pages in category "Women's prisons in China" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... Sichuan Provincial Women's Prison; T. Tai Lam Centre for ...
The penal system in the People's Republic of China is composed of an administrative detention system and a judicial incarceration system. As of 2020, it is estimated that 1.7 million people had been incarcerated in the People's Republic of China, which is the second-highest prison population after the United States.
Shanghai Women's Prison (Chinese: 上海市女子监狱), also called Songjiang Women's Prison, is a women's prison in Songjiang District, Shanghai, China. [1] It is a part of the Shanghai Prison Administrative Bureau. It has over 1,000 prisoners and is the only such correctional facility for women in the direct-controlled municipality. Its ...
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According to the International Centre for Prison Studies, as of August 2014, the Chinese women's prison population is the second-largest in the world (after the United States) with 84,600 female prisoners in total or 5.1% of the overall Chinese prison population. [2] [35]