The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) believes that women do not belong in prison as the three major offences that cause their incarceration are connected to “disordered relationships with men.”
Welcoming President David Granger’s extension of a presidential pardon to women prisoners and his move to pardon specific categories of prisoners, the association in a press statement said that the recent release recognizes the injustice that incarceration imposes on women “in ways that do not apply to men.” And women suffer more in prison, the association said, as reports from other societies show that women in prison experience much higher rates of sexual violence than men and from men. While the association has not received recent reports of this occurring in the New Amsterdam Prison, the higher numbers grow the more exposed women become.
According to the GHRA, women are generally incarcerated for petty theft, drug trafficking and murder and all of three many times stem from disordered relationships with men. The association is of the opinion that female drug traffickers traffic the drugs for the
