Women, Integration and Prison; Policy Recommendations for Hungary

Currently in Hungary a number of alternative measures that are applied in EU countries remain unexplored, and even those available for the courts, are underutilized. This contributes to steady increases in the prison population in general, and particularly impacts women, who could especially benefit from an increase in alternative measures due to the generally lower level of threat they represent to public security. The MIP research has shown, that the prison does not – can not - compensate for the multiple disadvantages experienced by many of the women who are imprisoned in Hungary, instead, imprisonment of already excluded women only contributes to their further social exclusion.