Addressing Radicalization in French Prisons: How Women Detained for Terrorism are Being Rehabilitated and Reintegrated
In France, 430 people are currently detained for acts of terrorism, including 385 for Islamist terrorism. Among them, 96 are women. “Before 2016, female jihadists who participated in terrorist acts were sentenced to alternative sentences to prison,” recalls Leïla Medjelet, prison director of integration and probation and coordinator of the mission to combat violent radicalization … Read more