Shanghai Women's Prison

Shanghai Women's Prison
Shanghai Women's Prison
Simplified Chinese	上海市女子监狱
Traditional Chinese	上海市女子監獄
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Shànghǎishì Nǚzǐ Jiānyù

Shanghai Women's Prison (Chinese: 上海市女子监狱), also called Songjiang Women's Prison, is a women's prison in Songjiang District, Shanghai, China.^[1] 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. Its prisoners had committed murder, embezzlement, theft, fraud, assault, drug offenses, and other crimes.^[2]

The prison has a mother and daughter program for young women who are incarcerated. This program began in 2014.^[3]

A fire occurred in 2013.^[4]

References[edit]

^ Zhao, Wen. "Women behind bars meet their mothers" (Archive). Shanghai Daily. Saturday March 8, 2014. Retrieved on December 21, 2015.
^ "Prison screens movies as tools for change" (Archive). City of Shanghai. May 10, 2014. Retrieved on December 21, 2015.
^ Yang, Meiping. "Women’s prison invites mothers to see their daughters" (Archive). Shanghai Daily. May 21, 2015. Retrieved on December 21, 2015.
^ Griffiths, James. "Massive fire forces evacuation of Shanghai Women's Prison " (Archive). That's Shanghai. December 3, 2013. Retrieved on December 21, 2015.

External links[edit]

Shanghai Prison Administration (in Chinese)

This article about a building or structure in China is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[ZhaoWen-1] Zhao, Wen. "Women behind bars meet their mothers" (Archive). Shanghai Daily. Saturday March 8, 2014. Retrieved on December 21, 2015.

[2] "Prison screens movies as tools for change" (Archive). City of Shanghai. May 10, 2014. Retrieved on December 21, 2015.

[3] Yang, Meiping. "Women’s prison invites mothers to see their daughters" (Archive). Shanghai Daily. May 21, 2015. Retrieved on December 21, 2015.

[4] Griffiths, James. "Massive fire forces evacuation of Shanghai Women's Prison " (Archive). That's Shanghai. December 3, 2013. Retrieved on December 21, 2015.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]