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KYRGYZSTAN
- INSIDE PRISON, FAMILIES CAN STAY TOGETHER, AT LEAST FOR NOW.....
5 March 2013 - At a prison in Kyrgyzstan, women who were incarcerated while pregnant can keep their young children with them until age 3. The arrangement seems to make the best of a very difficult situation, but these families must still face the moment when they will be separated.
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FULL ARTICLE & PHOTO GALLERY -
Institute of War & Peace Reporting
Kyrgyzstan -
Women in Prison - Photos +
French photographer Eric Gourlan has documented life in Kyrgyzstan’s penal system by voluntarily spending a month inside.
"One woman told
me that she had been in a very difficult financial situation and somebody asked
her to transport 30 grams of heroin from point A to point B for 100 [US]
dollars. She was caught and given 12 years in prison. She had never used drugs
before, never sold them, and never got her 100 dollars, but she has been locked
up for 12 years"....
But there are also people for whom being in
prison is better than being outside. I met a 73-year-old woman who murdered her
husband when she was 65. When I asked why she murdered him, she said that for
40 years, she coped with her husband’s violence and drinking, and finally one
night she killed him. She also told me that nobody took care of her in her
entire life, but now in prison she was fully provided with food and shelter and
she had found a family. She feels better as life has become easier for her than
before.....
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Juvenile and Women’s Prison Colonies in Kyrgyzstan
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