12 Amendments of Edouard MARTIN related to 2015/2062(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas on average women account for 4.5 % of the prisoners in the 28 Member States and the increased number of women in prison is partly due to worsening economic conditions for women; whereas the distribution by age of women prisoners is a fundamental principle of the protection for minors, and whereas every detention centre needs a wing to house vulnerable prisoners;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas very often female prisoners are mothers and the sole carers of young children and whereas, because of the uneven territorial coverage of establishments able to accommodate them, these women suffer more from the breakdown of their family ties;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the non-mixed nature of activities and the isolation of women's detention quarters in prisons housing prisoners of both genders make it particularly difficult for women to access common facilities such as sanitary facilities, socio-cultural areas, sports grounds or libraries, whereas not all female prisoners are able to occupy a post in central services because they are prohibited from frequenting certain common facilities, and whereas such access which should be ensured for women prisoners contributes to the reconstruction of their social life and the normalisation of life in custody which is a necessary precondition for any reintegration;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Member States to collect information on all aspects of imprisonment, to make a breakdown of all data by gender and to make the statistics available in order to understand the most common crimes committed by women, and to also consider alternative forms of detention for minor crimes and calls on the Member States in this connection to take all necessary measures to combat prison overcrowding, which must in no way constitute an obstacle to the effective application of the principle of equality between men and women;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that mental illnesses are overrepresented among women in prison and that women are more prone to commit self-harm, suicide or have problems with drugs and, alcohol abuse or being sexually exploited; calls on the Member States to improve conditions for women in prison by taking into account their specific needs, including by means of prevention, monitoring and the treatment of physical and mental health problems and recommends, in this respect, that the Member States should do everything to ensure the distribution of women prisoners by age and provide a wing for the most vulnerable prisoners;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Member States to pay particular attention to the protection of the health, dignity and privacy of women in detention centres with regard to their specific medical and hygiene needs, as these may be neglected or treated inappropriately owing to the small number of women in such centres, and reminds Member States that regaining self-esteem is an essential component of human dignity;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers it essential that special attention is given to the needs of pregnant women in prison, not only during pregnancy but also after they have given birth, by providing adequate spaces for breastfeeding and nursing; considers it appropriate to reflect upon alternative models that take into account the wellbeing of children in prisons; maintains that the automatic separation of the mother from her child creates strong emotional disturbances in the child and can be equated with a double penalty for the mother; calls on the Member States to put in place provisions to enable mothers to stay with their children for as long as possible;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Member States to take affirmative and preventive action in the fight against all forms of violence against women in prison such as sexual exploitation which is totally unacceptable and degrading practices, and to take all the necessary measures to provide psychological support to all women prisoners who are victims of multiple forms of violence;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses the extreme vulnerability of LGBTI inmates who are at greatest risk of discrimination, abuse and sexual violence; calls on the Member States to provide individual cells to ensure the safety, dignity and privacy of transsexual and intersex prisoners;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Encourages those Member States in which women prostitutes are detained for soliciting to review their legislation in the light of the Swedish model and to propose strategies for helping prostitutes to abandon prostitution;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Condemns in this connection the systematic practice of removing bras from women in police custody, a practice which is not proportionate to the risks involved;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Urges the Member States to take all the necessary action to prevent the radicalisation of women in prisons; points out that terrorist groups engage women in many different ways, including by marriage and persuading them to recruit others or to commit violent acts, including suicide attackswomen play a key role in preventing and warning about such phenomena.