As pulp and crime magazines grew in popularity in the 1940s, the women-in-prison genre became a recognizable trope with films like 1950’s Caged and So Young, So Bad.

The current CWP (full name: Changi Women's Prison/Drug Rehabilitation Centre) was completed in 1994 as a solution to overcrowding in the old Female Prison near Moon Crescent.

In this second of a three-part series on life in Changi Prison, CNA looks at how some elderly or infirm inmates are housed in assisted living cells.

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Producer Roger Corman's women-in-prison exploitation movies filmed in the Philippines during the early 1970s have received little academic attention, despite renewed audience interest in recent years.