A walk through time

Jul 23, 1998
Tanya R. Neuman

Prison. It means bars, barbed wire and armed guards. But at the women's prison in the Ilguciems region of Riga, imprisonment focuses more on rehabilitation than punishment. In part I of II, Tanya R. Neuman spent a day with the women of the Ilguciems prison and learned how they are changing the common perception of prison.Around the corner from the local gro-cery store and the only tram stop, a number of apartment buildings sit cozily among a grove of trees. A half-mud, half-rock dirt road twists ...

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