Information, topic by topic, on prisons across the world

December 9, 2016

France : "La prison n'est pas un angle mort de la démocratie"

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Europe Violence France

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December 8, 2016

Turquie : Asli Erdogan. Une plume pour briser la pierre

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Europe Turkey

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December 8, 2016

Turquie : Selahattin Demirtas, l’assoiffé de justice

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Europe Turkey

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December 8, 2016

Turquie : Fingen Yüksekdag. La résistance dans les veines

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Europe Turkey

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December 8, 2016

UK : Prison Reform Trust report claims overcrowded jails 'more likely' to fail

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Overcrowding United Kingdom

The most overcrowded prisons in England and Wales are twice as likely to be rated as failing, a new report claims. According to the Prisons Reform Trust, nearly two thirds of prisons are overfull, with jails holding more than 10,000 inmates than they were built to.

December 8, 2016

Turquie : Selma Irmak, « La prison est notre seconde adresse »

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Europe Turkey

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December 8, 2016

UK : Our prison restraint techniques can kill children.

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Europe Minors Discipline Torture United Kingdom

Tuesday the Ministry of Justice had been told that the restraint techniques it had approved for use on children in custody could kill them. A risk assessment carried out by an independent medical adviser concluded that 28 of the 66 sanctioned restraints had a 40% to 60% chance of resulting in injur…

December 7, 2016

Guinée : Décès en série à la prison civile de Coyah

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Africa Violence Guinea

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December 7, 2016

France : La contrainte pénale, une alternative à la prison encore peu appliquée

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Europe France

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December 7, 2016

France : L’ancienne prison de Beauvais devient terrain d’entraînement

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Europe France

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December 7, 2016

Belgique : La prison, solution ultime

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Europe Belgium

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December 7, 2016

France : Ces prisons où les détenus ont la clé

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Europe France

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December 6, 2016

Argentina : detuvieron al Subdirector del Servicio Penitenciario, 7 agentes y 2 internos

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South America Violence Argentina

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December 6, 2016

Au Mali, des prisons devenues la cible des djihadistes

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Africa Mali

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December 6, 2016

USA : the stain of racism in New York’s prisons

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United States

New Yorkers are grimly familiar with state prison horror stories featuring guards who beat and torture inmates, knowing that their union will shield them from punishment and that district attorneys in towns dominated by prisons will look the other way.

December 6, 2016

USA : The world's growing debt problem is just like the US prison system

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United States

Bill Gross, the legendary investor, thinks that America has two imprisonment problems.The first, is the literal incarceration rate in the US. The second is the trap of ever-growing debt that has ensnared the US and global economies

December 6, 2016

France : Future prison dans les Pyrénées

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Europe France

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December 6, 2016

Autriche : des peines de prison contre les migrants qui mentent

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Europe Austria

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December 6, 2016

Belgique : prison de Verviers, une maison de peines uniquement

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Europe Belgium

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December 6, 2016

France : la détention provisoire bat de nouveaux records

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Pre-trial detention Europe Justice France

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December 5, 2016

North Korea : satellite images show prison camps accused of 'atrocities'

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North Korea

Pyongyang has denied the existence of kwanliso prison camps, where the UN says inmates have faced starvation, forced labor, torture and rape.

December 5, 2016

France : Radicalisation en prison, un campus pour former les gardiens à Fleury-Mérogis

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Europe Discipline France

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December 5, 2016

Syrie : la machine à tuer des prisons de Bachar el Assad.

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Middle East Syria

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December 5, 2016

USA : the link between race and solitary confinement

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Discipline United States

Men of color are overrepresented in isolation, while whites are typically underrepresented. Stark disparities in prisoners’ treatment are embedded into criminal-justice systems at the city, county, state, and federal levels, and have disproportionate, negative effects on men of color.