Women's Jail
Definition
A prison, or a separate ward within a general prison, holding women convicted or under trial for criminal offences, administered under state prison law rather than the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act.
Related terms
- Bangkok Rules
- The United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders, adopted by the UN General Assembly...
- Gender-Responsive Corrections
- An approach to designing and running correctional institutions that starts from women's distinct pathways into custody, health needs, and caregiving responsibilities, rather...
- Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956
- The central statute, originally enacted as the Suppression of Immoral Traffic in Women and Girls Act, 1956 and renamed by a 1986...
- Protective Home
- A residential institution established or licensed by a State Government under Section 21 of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956, to hold...
- Vigilance Home
- A short-term, state-run custodial and counselling facility used by some State Governments to hold a woman apprehended in circumstances suggesting trafficking or...