Women inmates around the world are all treated worse than male inmates, regardless of what country the prison is in (Reichel, 2013). Three big reasons for women prisoners being treated similar around the world is a result of “the consistently small percentage of female inmates in all countries, the worldwide tendency to imprison drug offenders, and the general similarity of needs and problems among women prisoners” (Reichel, 2013, p 259). Since the number of women inmates is low all over the world, there is not as much attention given to the women (Reichel, 2013). On average, women inmates only make up about five percent of the entire prison populations in countries (Reichel, 2013). Women inmates are supposed to be detained separately from
