Report of the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Its Causes and Consequences: Mission to the United States of America on the Issue of Violence Against Women in State and Federal Prisons

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Report of the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Its Causes and Consequences: Mission to the United States of America on the Issue of Violence Against Women in State and Federal Prisons

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• United Nations Commission on Human Rights (New York, NY)

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Published 1999. 45 pages.

Related Topics

• Health care-women-prisons (Offender Services)
• Health care-women-prisons (Special Offenders)
• Inmate mothers (Offender Services)
• Inmate mothers (Special Offenders)
• Rights of offenders (Offender Management)
• Rights of offenders (Offender Services)
• Staff inmate relations (Administration)
• Staff inmate relations (Personnel)
• Violence in institutions (Offender Management)
• Women in prisons (Special Offenders)

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