Women ' s imprisonment grows 50 per cent despite innocence

The increase in female imprisonment highlights the lack of awareness of their rights and the vulnerability of CARLOS RUIZ/PORTAVOZ PHOTO: ALEJANDRO LOPEZ In the past three months, operations against organized crime in Chiapas have had an unexpected side effect: a 50 per cent increase in the number of women held in the state's Social Reintegration Centres (CERSS). Most of these arrests have taken place in indigenous areas, where many of the women…