Sorry, my b.s. meter rang out here. Here, on the page 9 of this dissertation, we have a newspaper from before the revolution that describes the area as "cages"

Sorry, my b.s. meter rang out here. Here, on the page 9 of this dissertation, we have a newspaper from before the revolution that describes the area as "cages" for women, most of whom are "caught in mental and/or familial issues and crisis", "some of whom never see daylight". The older ones, who apparently could leave, ended up "becoming child caretakers for younger prostitutes". In the middle of this "women's space", there was an open air "garbage dump", and "mattresses were made from the cotton of discarded sanitary napkins". So yeah, a "prison" "concretely" belongs to the inmates. https://open-education-repository.ucl.ac.uk//799/1/Sadaf_Tabatabaei_Dissertation.pdf https://open-education-repository.ucl.ac.uk//799/1/Sadaf_Tab...