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États-Unis : une Américaine a passé trois jours en prison sans pantalon ni protections hygiéniques
La juge qui l’a reçue en comparution a été outrée du traitement qu’elle avait subi et a commué sa peine. La scène se déroule lors d’une audience dans le Kentucky, à Louisville, le 29 juillet. La caméra du tribunal filme la juge Amber Wolf, empêtrée dans ses papiers. Elle reçoit une accusée qui ne s…USA : mass incarceration is making infectious diseases worse
Depriving people of condoms and medications puts everyone at risk. Some countries do make condoms available to prisoners, while others cite security issues, or blanket prohibitions of sex. Only last year, California became the second state to require that condoms be available to all prisoners. Even…USA : when prisons are toxic to both humanity and the environment
Activists are taking aim at mass incarceration, environmental pollution and the toxic prisons where the two problems meet. Nestled in the hills of Letcher County, Kentucky, the Lilley Cornett Woods are a sea of biodiversity. The 554 acres are home to over 530 species of flowering plants and the end…USA : federal officials ignored years of internal warnings about deaths at private prisons
In February, The Nation reported that at least 38 men died in the BOP’s privately run prisons from 1998 to 2014 in the wake of inadequate medical care. An examination of thousands of pages of previously unreleased files revealed that gravely ill prisoners had been left untreated, or relegated to th…USA : mass reduction of California prison population didn’t cause rise in crime, two studies find
After California’s prison population reached the crisis stage of overcrowding — with some prisons at 300 percent capacity — the state in 2011 began to parole thousands of inmates to their original counties. Within 15 months, more than 27,500 inmates had been “realigned” from state prisons to county…