Report critical of women's prison
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Conditions at Scotland's only female prison, Cornton Vale, are heavily criticised in a new HMI report.
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U.S. military intelligence soldiers  and civilian contractors working with them were directly  involved in the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib jail to  a greater extent than previously acknowledged, an Army report  released on Wednesday found.
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Arkansas correction officials are dedicating a Bible-based program for female prisoners, but a national group said it's a risky move while a similar system is being challenged in federal court.
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A report into the troubled Harmondsworth detention centre is the poorest yet, according to the chief inspector of prisons.
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Women and girls in war zones suffer rape and violent abuse while offenders escape punishment, Amnesty International said a report released Wednesday.
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Women inmates in New Jersey's prisons are twice as likely to be raped and nearly six times more likely to be otherwise sexually abused by other inmates than their male counterparts, according to a new federal study.
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A US government commission looking into the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal in Iraq is set to  publish its findings.
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Top defense officials and military leaders are at least partly responsible for the abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib and other prisons because of leadership deficiencies and a failure to address worsening conditions at the facilities, according to newspaper reports citing two separate investigations.
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Inattention to prisoner issues by senior U.S. military leaders in Iraq and at the Pentagon was a key factor in the abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib prison, but there is no evidence they ordered any mistreatment, an independent panel concluded. A second report looking at prisoner abuse was expected to be released Wednesday.
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A confidential U.S. Army report  warned of abuse of Iraqi detainees by the CIA and other U.S.  military forces in December 2003, more than a month before  mistreatment at the Abu Ghraib prison was uncovered, The  Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
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Fewer than three prisoners in every 1,000 report they were sexually abused or harassed, but that probably is not the whole story, a government study says.
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Female activists in Zimbabwe are facing increasingly brutal treatment from the police, a report claims.
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An independent panel has succeeded where other authorities have failed in placing blame for the inexcusable mistreatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
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Nearly half of girls in some African  countries are raped, an advocacy group said on Thursday in a  report that sharply criticizes existing programs aimed at  curbing violence to help stop the spread of AIDS.
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Tories and penal reformers accuse government of mismanagement of prison system
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Inmates were severely beaten, cells were ransacked and set on fire, and a female librarian was trapped with dozens of convicts during a riot last summer at a privately run prison, according to a state report released Tuesday.
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A report issued Monday by a human rights group accuses Myanmar's military of killing, raping and torturing ethnic Karen women as part of its battle against the minority group over the past 25 years.