2023-08-07 08:50:51
In Belgium, there are only 5% of women prisoners, drowned in a very masculine prison world. Article reserved for subscribers By Laurence Wauters Published on 7/08/2023 at 10:50 Reading time: 3 min
When you arrive in Mons, we give you a hygiene kit, we give it back to you every month and you don’t have to pay for a new washcloth or for a disposable razor, for example”, explains a former detained. “It’s a small prison, there are almost only women prison officers so we were more comfortable asking for personal things like our sanitary protection. There was a “family” atmosphere, we might dress as we wanted. But there were too many of us, three in cells of two, and we made the condemned leave first”.
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