#detention facility

[brinaarcadia]

WE WILL BE REBORN

[coochiequeens]

No woman should ever be an afterthought"

By Lorraine Finlay Dec 10 2024

Picture this. It has been months since you last saw or hugged a loved one, including your children. You are a survivor of domestic violence but are now living next door to men who are sex offenders. You speak little English. And your life in detention has no end date.

This is a common experience for women in Australia’s immigration detention system. Their visas have either lapsed or been revoked, or they never had one in the first place after arriving here in a way deemed to be illegal.

In Australia, women make up a small number, roughly 6%, of people in immigration detention. These women are wedged into a system which operates predominantly with men in mind, with their separate and specific needs widely overlooked.

On Wednesday, the Australian Human Rights Commission published the findings of an investigation into the experiences of women living within this system. As part of our inspections, I spoke with women in all immigration detention facilities where they are housed. What they told me was extremely alarming.

They spoke of limited privacy and widespread exposure to harassment and violence. Of leering men at the gym. Of not having access to the canteen. Of inadequate medical and mental health support. Of living in a constant state of stress and anxiety. Of wanting to turn their lives around, but being banned from work, study or vocational training.

And what they told us was confirmed by what we saw at the centres ourselves. There were too many examples of the housing, the facilities, the programs, and services such as healthcare or education being either insufficient, inappropriate or unsafe, with staff not adequately trained to address women’s needs. We met with staff who want to make changes and are trying their best, but who find themselves up against a system that is too often resistant to change

In just one example, at Sydney’s Villawood immigration detention centre – which has the highest number of women of any facility in Australia – women are housed next to a compound that includes men who are sex offenders. With many of these women being survivors of abuse, a shared fence line exposes them to the risk of further harm.

The separation of families was another key issue raised with us. Most women are detained far from their families – often interstate – which makes it difficult for their children and loved ones to visit. We were told by some women that they have not been able to hug a family member in years. This is unacceptable, particularly when Australians are told that immigration detention is not meant to be punitive.

Previous reports I have led show there are also significant human rights concerns facing men in immigration detention. But, as it stands, detained women are at an increased vulnerability.

In every system, people’s backgrounds, gender and circumstances will impact their needs and rights. In immigration detention centres, the current risk to women’s health and safety is of urgent concern.

Our report makes 31 recommendations to better protect the human rights of women in immigration detention, as well as improving the quality of the work environment and support for staff. These include better conditions across centres, such as safer housing, gender-specific staff training and female recruitment, enhanced access to healthcare, education, and meaningful activities.

The Department of Home Affairs has cautiously responded to our report, accepting or partially agreeing with 11 of the recommendations. We urge it to take immediate action and implement our recommendations in full.

Our report is another reminder that things must change. Improving the treatment of women in immigration detention helps raise the bar to how we are all treated. No woman should ever be an afterthought.

 Lorraine Finlay is Australia’s human rights commissioner

[dailykugisaki]

Day eighty-two | id in alt

Fresh from the juvenile facility to make more juvenile mistakes.

Kugisaki will tell Shoko that she just messed up, an accident.

(For those of you who don't or cannot read my tags, The reason Kugisaki has that kinda look is because I think in the juvenile facility she had strained herself of cursed energy too far and almost gave herself a brain hemorrhage!💥)

[storekn1fe]

every day i'm so sad we only got one chapter with these three as a trio.

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[sapphia]

love how everyone on this website is like "the justice system's broken!" but they mean like, the US justice system. which is not a system that half of the userbase here actually live under

[planetkiimchi]

"Last Wednesday, the Israeli Supreme Court held a hearing in response to a petition brought forward by Israeli rights group, HaMoked, to reveal the location of a Palestinian X-Ray technician detained from Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza in February. It was the first court session of its kind since October 7."

if people in israel can speak up against this genocide, as someone who will not be subject the legal repercussions they are likely to face, how can you stay silent?

Concentration camp.

They built a concentration camp.

I don't think words can describe what this other than genocide.

[wausaupilot]

Study committee considers creation of new mental health treatment facilities

Wisconsin children have been navigating significant mental health challenges in recent years, and the state has been exploring ways to improve support.

by Baylor Spears, Wisconsin Examiner November 22, 2024 A study committee considered proposals Thursday to create new long-term mental health facilities for youth, expanding who could initiate an emergency detention and changing consent requirements for minors over the age of 14.  Wisconsin children have been navigating significant mental health challenges in recent years, and the state has been…

[brinaarcadia]

Persephone… secret home o' Sinclair Solutions. I bet against Andy Ryan's vision o' harmony in Rapture -- offered him a quiet place to send anybody who wasn't workin' out. And now I'm sittin' on my own private think tank. Technically, Utopia shouldn't have much use for a detention facility… but if you do business as long as I have… well, you learn to pick a brand name from the writin' on the wall.

[lonniemichaelfulbright-blog]

The Defender's Chronical

Large-scale prisons being secretly erected in all 50 states – will they be used to house illegals or force Americans into concentration camps? By Ethan Huff // Jun 26, 2024 Former 24-year Customs and Border Patrol (CPB) veteran J.J. Carrell got the chance to interview Christie Hutcherson of Women Fighting for America about a sinister plot by the globalists to build large-scale prison structures…

[auroraborus]

Are you guys reading this article? Have you been listening to the Palestinians describing these conditions for years? (before Oct 7) Do you know about the 13000 children slaughtered? Have you seen the mass graves, where hospital patients were zip tied and executed? Do you understand? Do you remember our history?

Do you know what this is?

[heritageposts]

🇵🇸 From BDS:

More than 300 Palestinian sports teams are calling to ban Israel from the Olympics over its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. [...] In Gaza, Israel has killed Palestinian Olympic Football coach Hani Al Masdar, destroyed the Palestinian Olympic Committee offices, and turned sports facilities into shameful mass detention and torture centers. We can’t sit back as the IOC allows Israel to use the Olympics to sportswash its genocide in Gaza and its apartheid regime against Palestinians everywhere. Support the call from Palestinian teams. Join the campaign to #BanIsrael from the Olympics and peacefully disrupt the road to the Paris 2024 games. 

Global days of action planned for March 15-17:

Ahead of the IOC executive board meeting in Lausanne Switzerland (March 19-21), take the call from Palestinian teams to your National Olympic Committee, International Sports Federations and Recognized Sports Federations. Organize protests, sit-ins, peaceful disruptions, or awareness raising events on Israeli attacks on Palestinian sports.

For more concrete information on how you can participate in the campaign, see the link above. You should also check in with your local BDS-affiliated organization(s) to see if they have anything planned for these dates (if they don't, consider bringing it up to them)

If you're not familiar with any BDS-affiliated organizations in your country (or state/city), then take a look at BDS's "Join a Campaign'"page.

There's also a petition you can sign.

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

“It's astonishing... the reports coming out of Israeli detention facilities describe violence that matches and exceeds the brutality of Abu Ghraib, which was enough to trigger a political crisis in the USA in 2004. But this time, silence. Just obscene.”

Sources:

[thedailycounternews]

Are South Carolina's Correctional Institutions Failing the Grade?

A microscope has been placed on Alvin S. Glenn Correctional Institution for months. In the past week, 7 Correctional Officers have been arrested for violations and charged with misconduct in office. But what of the other institutions within the State? It is difficult to believe that if these violations are happening in one, it is not happening in others throughout the State? The real question is…