In the shadow of being forgotten: Women incarcerated in Nigerian prisons and the health implications

2015 
abstractThe 21st century holds hopes for a better life for women all over the world, especially in Africa. Africa has also seen a rise in women occupying political office with the expectation that this representation will positively impact on policies that affect women, regardless of their status, class or location in life. While these discourses centre on women, one group of women however seem to be in the shadow of being forgotten and are less visible in these discussions – incarcerated women. Women in prisons today are enmeshed in a web of societal and legal constructs. The very basis of prison today in Nigeria which aims at social isolation and confinement, repentance, punishment and deterrence, protection and reformation becomes the veil that often obscures these women's visibility and conversely social access to them. Although women's health has been on the priority list of international development discourses over the last four decades or more, women prisoners continue to fall through the cracks du...
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