New prison for women being built in Havana

New prison for women being built in Havana

HAVANA, Cuba – March 6 (Jaime Leygonier / www.cubanet.org) – Workers are
rushing to finish a new correctional facility for women being built in
Calderón, part of Alquízar municipality in Havana province, south of the
city. Authorities have announced that the prison, with capacity for
thousands of inmates, will be ready for use in three months.

The three existing women's prisons around Havana are all overcrowded
since the raids carried out in the past months. Many of the inmates are
serving terms of up to four years for “dangerousness,” a catch-all term
that basically denotes having the potential for criminality.

In the case of women, it means prostitution or the suspicion thereof.
Dangerousness is invoked whenever Cuban women are seen talking to
foreigners, for instance, or when they are in the vicinity of tourist
facilities or places frequented by tourists.

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