World Female Imprisonment List data cited in Guardian articles on women in prison

Data from ICPR’s latest edition of the World Female Imprisonment List (published in February 2025) have been used extensively in two articles in The Guardian. The data in the List are compiled from information held on the World Prison Brief (WPB) database and lead researcher Helen Fair is also quoted noting the gaps in the availability of data on the number of women in prison around the world.

The articles “Experts warn of ‘global crisis’ as number of women in prison nears one million” and “How many women are in prison and on death row around the world? – in charts” are part of a series the newspaper is running looking at the experiences of women in prison around the world and the abuses they face.