Fort Augusta Women's Prison
Description
- Creator
- Human Rights Watch Editorial Team, Author
- Media Type
- Text
- Item Type
- Documents
- Description
- An excerpt from a report on prison conditions in Jamaica from Human Rights Watch, it was issued after a delegation visited the island and inspected various detention centers, including Fort Augusta, the only correctional facility for women. The report seeks to call attention to human rights abuses of incarcerated women.
- Publisher
- Human Rights Watch
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Pagination
- p. 29-31
- Date of Original
- May 1990
- Date Of Event
- 1990
- Subject(s)
- Corporate Name(s)
- Department of Correctional Services, Jamaica
- Local identifier
- CERLAC Resource Centre, Shelf D5, Box Jamaica Human Rights Watch - Americas Watch
- Collection
- CERLAC
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Saint Catherine, Jamaica
Latitude: 17.9666 Longitude: -76.84797
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- Creative Commons licence
[more details]- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian law. No restrictions on use.
- Recommended Citation
- "Prison Conditions In Jamaica: An Americas Watch Report". Human Rights Watch (1990), 29-31.
- Location of Original
- CERLAC Resource Centre, Shelf D4, Box Jamaica Human Rights Watch / Americas Watch
