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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.
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 ...
Sichuan Provincial Women's Prison (四川省女子监狱 Sìchuān Shěng nǚzǐ jiānyù) is a women's prison in Yangma Town (养马镇), Jianyang, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, 50 kilometres (31 mi) away from the center of Chengdu (Jianyang was previously administered by Ziyang and not Chengdu).
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.
Established in 1878 as a reformatory confining women for the crime of having children out of wedlock, by the 1970s much of the prison’s population were being held on counts of shoplifting and ...
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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.