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Yesterday AdvocAid and @VanceCenter launched the first comprehensive study on women’s imprisonment in #SierraLeone. We hope the study will amplify the voices of women in #prison and with lived prison experiences in Sierra Leone.
Read the report here: https://bit.ly/3kw7lpv
Read the report here: https://bit.ly/3kw7lpv
The groundbreaking report highlights the urgent need to address structural inequality and create gender-responsive policies – including non-custodial measures – that address the unique challenges of women’s pathways to and from #incarceration.
The study's #recommendations for the Sierra Leonean government include:
Develop alternatives to incarceration and community-based non-custodial measures such as diversion, community service and community-based treatment that reduce the consequences of imprisonment
Develop alternatives to incarceration and community-based non-custodial measures such as diversion, community service and community-based treatment that reduce the consequences of imprisonment
Decriminalise and declassify petty offences
Abolish the mandatory #DeathPenalty and develop sentencing guidelines which fully take into account mitigating factors in sentencing;
Abolish the mandatory #DeathPenalty and develop sentencing guidelines which fully take into account mitigating factors in sentencing;
Ensure greater investment in legal empowerment services such as #paralegals and #lawyers
Provide women in prison with gender-specific #healthservices
Provide women in prison with gender-specific #healthservices
Increase efforts in post-release support and develop options such as home leave, open prisons, halfway houses and community-based programs to facilitate the transition of women from #prison to the outside world and to reduce stigma.
Conduct further #research on the different and disproportionate impacts that the #criminaljustice system has on #women in order to better understand and address their needs.
