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Who Are We? Group Name: E-3 Ward

Group Members: Fatih Hazar Kedersiz- Fled

Melike İşleyen –Guid Project Topic: Life in Prison

Meeting Time: Saturdays (17:00 – 20:00)

Meeting Point: Library Study Group Leader: Fatih Hazar Kedersiz

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SLOGANPrison is not a GRAVEYARD.

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Content

Brainstorming

Matrix Diagram

Pareto Diagrom

Fishbone Diagram

Literature Review

Terminology & History

Statistical Information

Sexual Violence

Hierarchical & Physical Violence

Physical Conditions

Limited Health Services

Survey

Non- Governmental Organization

Suggestion

Gantt Chart

References

Acknowledgement

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Brainstormıng

Rape

Abuse

Violence

Limited Health Service

Othering

Limited Social Activity

Isolation

Administrative conditions

Hierarchical pressure

Childbirth

Maltreatment

Torture

Insults

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MATRIX DIAGRAM

Physical Violence

Psychological Violence

Human Conditions

Administrative Conditions

Fatih 6 7 5 4

Melike 5 7 6 4

Total 11 14 11 8

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Pareto Diagram

Fatih Melike0

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Physical Violence

Human Conditions

Physical Violence Psychological Violence

Human Conditions Administrative Conditions

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FISHBONE DIAGRAM

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Termınology&HISTORY

A prison is a facility in which individuals are forcibly confined and denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state as a form of punishment.

The time spent in prison changes according to seriousness of the crime. In flagitious crimes, the convict may get a life sentence. Correctional facilities are where younger convicts are put. Convicts who get oncustodial sentences are not put prison but they spend some time having stripped of their freedoms.

Putting people in a closed place for punishment is an old tradition. London Tower in London, Bastille Castle in Paris and Yedikule Dungeons in Istanbul were this kind of places. But, political prisoners were put in these places instead of regular prisoners. Ottoman Sultan, Osman the 2nd who was discrowned by a janissary revolt in 1622 was imprisoned in Yedikule and was killed there.

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Statistical Information

In Turkey, there are around 140.000 prisoners, including those that are convicted and detained, children, women, old timer, handicapped, LGBTs and foreigners (Turkish Statiscal Institute, 2013).

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Operation Return to Life

During the week of December 19-26, 2000, 10,000 Turkish soldiers violently occupied 48 prisons to end two months of hunger strikes and "death fasts" by hundreds of political prisoners. The hunger strikers are protesting the state's plan to transfer its prisoners from large wards to US-style "F-type" cells holding one to three occupants. Operation "Return to Life"—which left at least 31 prisoners and two soldiers dead—lasted a few hours in most prisons, and up to three days at one prison. Eight prisoners are reportedly "disappeared," and at least 426 prisoners have been wounded. 1,005 prisoners have been transferred to F-type cells.

http://www.merip.org/mero/mero122900

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 Sexual Violence

Female inmates experience high rates of rape and sexual violence while incarcerated. Research documents numerous cases in which women are at a significantly higher risk than men for being sexually abused before and during prison. Sexual aggression and abuse by male prison staff is widespread.

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Sexual Violence-Childhood Abuse

14% of all men in prison and 36% of women in were abused as children, about twice the frequency seen in the general population.

In at least one study, about 80% of 21 year olds that were abused as children met criteria for at least one psychological disorder (Department of Health and Human Services, 2013).

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Sexual Violence-Childhood Abuse

Pazar, 4 Mayıs 2014, Adana'da cezaevinde çocuk istismarı

Cezaevlerinde yaşanan çocuk tecavüzleri için, yetkililerin seyirci kalma tutumu sürüyor. 15 yaşındaki F.O'nun ifadesi, maruz kaldığı istismarı görevlilere bildirmesine rağmen, hiçbir adımın atılmadığını ortaya koyuyor.

Adana’nın Ceyhan ilçesinde bulunan M Tipi Kapalı Cezaevinden bir tecavüz iddiası daha geldi. Cezaevinden 1 ay önce tahliye olan F.O, koğuş içerisinde günlerce taciz ve tecavüze uğradığını belirtti.

Evrensel gazetesinden Bahçegül Ercan'ın haberine göre, 15 yaşındaki F.O, cezaevine girdikten yaklaşık 10 gün sonra oda arkadaşı M.A’nın önceleri kendine cinsel tacizde, sonraları ise tecavüzde bulunduğunu ve kendisinin darp edildiğini belirterek şikayetçi oldu.

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Sexual Violence-LGBTs

While sexual violence is, in many respects, part of the daily prison experience for many inmates–whether they are victims, perpetrators, or forced observers—LGBT people are disproportionately targeted by staff and prisoners. It is now generally accepted by prison officials, experts, sociologists, and prison advocates that prisoners and detainees who are, or perceived to be, gay, transgender, or gender nonconforming are more likely to be sexually assaulted, coerced, and harassed than their heterosexual and gender-conforming counterparts. One study of six male prisons in California in 2007 found that 67 percent of the respondents who identified as LGBT reported having been sexually assaulted by another inmate during their imprisonment, a rate that was fifteen times higher than the rest of the prison population (Mogul J., Ritchie A& Whitlock K., 2011).

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Sexual Violence-LGBTs

Translar Açlık Grevinde!Samsun Bafra T-Tipi Kapalı Cezaevi'nde A-21 koğuşta Cezaevi idaresinin transfobik yaklaşımlarına karşı, hak ihlallerine karşı, trans tutsaklar süresiz açlık grevine başlamışlardır. Şu an açlık grevi eylemleri 28 günü buluyor!

"Özgürlükçü komuoyunun A-21 koğuşunda kalan ve 20 gündür (bugün itibariyle 28) sürdürmekte oldukları süresiz açlık grevi eylemlerini desteklemelerini, seslerine kulak vermelerini, yardım ve dayanışma içinde olmalarını dillendirmek istiyorum."

-Vegan-anarşist tutsak Osman Evcan

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Sexual Violence

Pozantı Cezaevi'nde neler oluyor? 25/02/2012

Medyada "taş atan çocuklar" olarak adlandırılan ve toplumsal olaylar gerekçesiyle gözaltına alınıp tutuklanan Kürt çocukları, cezaevlerinde yaşadıklarını anlattı. Cezaevinde adli tutukluların koğuşlarına konulan çocukların cinsel taciz ve tecavüze maruz kaldıkları iddia edildi

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Hierarchical&Physical VIOLENCE

The Guards had high status and they had high power. This was symbolized by good meals, by superior living conditions, by their privileges, and by their smart uniforms. They had multiple bases of power such as keys to all the doors in the prison and surveillance monitors with which to observe and control the Prisoners.

The Prisoners had low status. This was symbolized by their bad food, their Spartan living conditions, their basic uniforms. They had no formal power – having to do as they were told by the Guards

Most of all, though, status and power difference was encapsulated in the fact that, on the night before people entered the prison, we gathered the Guards together in a hotel. We told them that their task was to make the prison work, but that it was up to them to decide how best that might be done (BBC, Prison Study).

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Physical Conditions

Physical conditions of prisons have been at the center of long-standing debates in correctional policy and research. Many argue prisons should be unpleasant to deter future offending and motivate prosaically change among inmates. Others believe harsh conditions inhibit effective treatment and, perhaps, make offenders worse.

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Limited Health Services

Childbirth in prison

The needs of mothers during of pregnancy and childbirth often conflict with the demands of the prison system. “In 2007, the Bureau of Justice Statistics stated that, on average, 5% of women who enter into state prisons are pregnant and in jails 6% of women are pregnant”. Very few of these women receive prenatal care, which can be very detrimental to both the mother and child, especially when coupled with inmates’ histories of inadequate health care as well as sexual, physical and substance abuse.

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Limited Physical Conditions for inmates with disabilities

A recent report has shown that prison conditions in Turkey are poor for LGBT individuals, people with disabilities and the elderly.

The report also says prison conditions are not suitable for inmates with disabilities. For paralyzed inmates and those who are in wheelchairs, there is not enough equipment, such as special beds to avoid bruises or exercising materials. They also face difficulties when entering through the security gates. 

Report shows hard prison conditions for LGBTs, people with disabilities, Hürriyet Daily News, Vercihan Ziflioğlu

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Survey

To 20 Bogazici students, we asked 5 questions about prison life and prisoners.

Our aim was to investigate their views about prison system.

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Survey Question-1

Have you ever made a research about prison system in Turkey?

Yes No

65% NO

35% YES

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Survey Question-2

Would you be bothered by working with a convicted person?

90% YES 10% NO

Yes No

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Survey Question-3

Would you be prejudicial against convicted people?

Yes No

60% NO

40% YES

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Survey Question-4

Would you consider volunteering in a social community work conducted in a prison?

5% YES 95% NO

Yes No

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Survey Question-5

Do you think there is a necessity for improvements in prisons in terms of attitudes of guardians and physical conditions?

40% YES 60% NO

Yes No

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Cisst- Penal system Association

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SUGGESTION

Participation to community organizations related with prison right.

Better living conditions in prison.

Support for prisoners jurally.

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GANNT CHART

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References

Beacon Press, 2011.LGBT People in the United States, edited by Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie, and Kay Whitlock.

Koksal, H. Imece Circles

Long - Term Consequences of Child Abuse and Neglect. Child Welfare Information Gateway.Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2013.

Sabol W.,West H., 2007. The Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Prisoner Statistics (NPS).

Turkish Statiscal Institute, 2013. Number of prisoners that are convicted and detained.

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THANKS TO HAYAL KÖKSAL