BY LUKE DOUGLAS Career & Education writer,
Jamaica Observer, Sunday, August 01, 2010
WHEN Coleen Dyer was deported to Jamaica from the United Kingdom in 2004, she felt her life had hit rock bottom. But on July 28, the 33-year-old mother of four was feeling good about herself again.
Armed with a certificate from the HEART/NTA Garmex Academy, [...]

Being pregnant and in prison forces a woman to prepare for the worst. Will she receive the treatment she needs? Will she be able to get out of her cell if labour starts? And, most poignantly, will she be able to keep her baby? Four new mothers tell their inside stories

By Dominic Casciani
BBC News 25/03/2010

An inspection report on Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre has sharply criticised the detention of children.
Chief prisons inspector Dame Anne Owers said some children were held at the Bedfordshire centre unnecessarily, with little consideration for their welfare.
And the report revealed that half were later released rather than deported.
Immigration Minister Phil [...]

BACKGROUND
The location for the second conference on Foreign National Women in UK Prisons is Jamaica, the Caribbean island of approximately eleven thousand square kilometres, with a population of 2.7 million, a median age of 26 years, of whom 30% are under fourteen. Despite its reputation as a paradise island, Jamaica is home to high levels [...]

Cumberland Lodge, The Great Park, Windsor
Overcrowding affects every aspect of a prison regime, reducing safety and inhibiting efforts at resettlement and rehabilitation. Despite a massive increase in prison places in recent years, chronic overcrowding continues to be the most damaging feature of the prison estate.
This conference will:

Identify the factors that [...]

FPWP Hibiscus launches a campaign in Ghana to educate young people about the dangers of becoming drug mules.
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The Female Prisoner’s Welfare Project–Hibiscus Jamaica Ltd was established in 1993. Its mandate is to provide the United Kingdom Judicial System with information regarding the socio–economic status of Jamaican women incarcerated for drug trafficking offences. The Agency also supports the resettlement, reintegration and rehabilitation of the women upon their return to the Jamaica.FPWP-Hibiscus Jamaica also [...]