Is there any difference between the situation of women, children and men in prison in relation to education?
Which? Women and adolescents represent a small portion of the prison population. The percentage of women detainees is roughly 4% of the population deprived of liberty. However, womens and adolescents interests, needs and rights are widely violated in detention contexts. In the majority of countries there is no preliminary assessment of womens educational needs upon entry and in many cases the pedagogical provision for them is still focused on stereotyped tasks such as cooking and handicrafts. This is not true education and the situation worsens if we consider the profile of women in detention: poor, unemployed and young, with an history of social and education exclusion. These characteristics continue to be invisibilized in the provision of education. In the case of adolescents in detention, the prevailing response of governments is to adopt punitive measures rather than educational measures. Education is still one of the last items in the list of priorities and this fact leads to the
