Shanghai Women's Prison (), also called Songjiang Women's Prison, is a

women's prison Approximately 741,000 women are incarcerated in correctional facilities, a 17% increase since 2010 and the female prison population has been increasing across all continents.Songjiang District Songjiang is a suburban district (formerly a county) of Shanghai. It has a land area of and a population of 1,909,713 (2020). Owing to a long history, Songjiang is known as the cultural root of Shanghai. Songjiang Town, the urban center of the ...

Shanghai Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the ...

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.Zhao, Wen.
Women behind bars meet their mothers

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''. Saturday March 8, 2014. Retrieved on December 21, 2015. It is a part of the Shanghai Prison Administrative Bureau. It has over 1,000 prisoners and is the only such correctional facility for women in the

direct-controlled municipality A direct-controlled municipality is the highest level classification for cities used by unitary states, with status equal to that of the provinces in the respective countries. A direct-controlled municipality is similar to, but not the same as, a ...

. Its prisoners had committed murder, embezzlement, theft, fraud, assault, drug offenses, and other crimes. The prison has a mother and daughter program for young women who are incarcerated. This program began in 2014. A fire occurred in 2013.Griffiths, James.
Massive fire forces evacuation of Shanghai Women's Prison

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Shanghai Prison Administration
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