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Aufseherin ( [ˈaʊ̯fˌzeːəʁɪn], pl. Aufseherinnen) was the position title for a female guard in Nazi concentration camps. Of the 50,000 guards who served in the concentration camps, training records indicate that approximately 3,500 were women. [ 1] In 1942, the first female guards arrived at Auschwitz and Majdanek from Ravensbrück.
The incarceration of women in the United States refers to the imprisonment of women in both prisons and jails in the United States. There are approximately 219,000 incarcerated women in the US according to a November 2018 report by the Prison Policy Initiative, [ 1] and the rate of incarceration of women in the United States is at a historic ...
This is a list of women on death row in the United States. The number of death row inmates fluctuates daily with new convictions , appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations , or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [ 1 ]
Capacity. 1,990. Population. 2,279 (114.5% capacity) (as of January 31, 2023 [ 1 ]) Opened. October 1990. Managed by. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Central California Women's Facility ( CCWF) is a female-only California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation state prison located in Chowchilla, California. [ 2 ]
ZIP Code. 10507-2400. Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women, a women's prison in the town of Bedford, New York, [ 3] is the largest New York State women's prison. The prison previously opened under the name Westfield State Farm in 1901. [ 4] It lies just outside the hamlet and census-designated place Bedford Hills, New York.
The prison opened in 1877 and was the second prison for women opened in the U.S. Several references note it as the oldest female correctional institution (of those still in operation) in the United States. [3] Its original name was the Sherborn Reformatory for Women, because at the time of its establishment it was located in that town.
Since 1976, when the Supreme Court of the United States lifted the moratorium on capital punishment in Gregg v. Georgia, 18 women have been executed in the United States. [ 1] Women represent about 1.13 percent of the 1,594 executions performed in the United States since 1976. [ 2]
A Milwaukee woman who argued she was immune from prosecution because the man she fatally shot was sexually trafficking her was sentenced Monday to 11 years in prison, according to Kenosha County ...