February 28, 2017 Indigenous interpreter shortage "adding to high incarceration rates" for Aboriginal people News Australia Some Aboriginal people are being kept in custody for longer than required because of a lack of interpreters in South Australia, lawyers representing Indigenous people claim.
February 28, 2017 Jamaica: correctional officers, recruits to be polygraphed in prison corruption clampdown News Jamaica The National Security Ministry has announced that all correctional officers and recruits are to be polygraphed as part of new measures aimed at cutting the smuggling of cell phones and other contraband into correctional facilities.
February 28, 2017 Thailand : Thai prisons violate human rights, report says. News Asia Thailand Prison conditions contravene UN treaties barring torture and stipulating minimum prisoner rights, group says. Thailand’s prisons fail to meet international standards with inmates routinely shackled, beaten, and stuffed into overcrowded cells, an international human rights group said. Thailand also…
February 28, 2017 Thailand: report calls for urgent prison reforms News Asia Thailand Paris, Bangkok - Thailand’s ongoing failure to enact comprehensive prison reforms has created conditions for human rights violations to be rife in its prison system, FIDH and UCL said in a new report published today. The report, titled “Behind the walls – A look at prison conditions in Thailand aft…
February 28, 2017 On the verge of a big change in penal system reform in Azerbaijan News Justice Azerbaijan Probation Service will be created in Azerbaijan by the Order of the President Ilham Aliyev, to improve the penal sphere, the humanization of punishment and expanding the use of alternative measures without isolation from society.
February 28, 2017 Thaïland: rights group says Thai prisons fall short of world standards News Asia Thailand Thailand’s prisons fail to meet international standards, with inmates routinely shackled, stuffed into overcrowded cells and forced to work in harsh conditions, an international human rights group said Tuesday.
February 28, 2017 Colombia’s prison crisis escalating as Ombudsman calls for closures News Colombia Colombia’s Ombudsman on Monday called for the closure of some of the nation’s prisons due to extreme overcrowding and a chronic humanitarian crisis that is unfolding, reported El Pais newspaper.
February 27, 2017 Colombia : Cancillería confirma ejecución de colombiano en China News South America Colombia This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.
February 27, 2017 France : comment fonctionne le quartier d'évaluation de la radicalisation ? News Europe Justice Facilities France This article is not available in English. If you wish you can consult the French version.
February 27, 2017 USA: private prison deprived inmates of heat and hot water for months, lawmaker finds News Material conditions United States The 284 women housed in C-dorm at Gadsden Correctional Institution in Quincy lived for months without hot water or heat, faced flooded bathrooms daily and endured water rations when the septic tanks were jammed with food waste.
February 27, 2017 Belgium: évasion à la prison belge de Lantin, le détenu a été aidé par trois complices News Europe Protest Belgium This article is not available in English. If you wish you can consult the French version.
February 27, 2017 Grande-Bretagne : une prison privatisée confiée à Sodexo fait scandale News United Kingdom This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
February 27, 2017 Canada: family doctors push to ban solitary confinement in prisons News North America Discipline Canada Canada’s family doctors are calling for an all-out ban on the use of solitary confinement in Canadian prisons.
February 27, 2017 Spectaculaire évasion dans une prison belge News Protest Belgium This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
February 27, 2017 Australia: lift game on violence to women News Women Oceania Violence Australia Women locked up for unpaid fines and red tape stopping others from escaping domestic violence were among issues that left a United Nations expert unimpressed during an inaugural visit to Australia.
February 27, 2017 République Dominicaine : le quotidien de Christophe Naudin dans la prison de Najayo News Dominican Republic This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
February 26, 2017 Thirteen escape in prison break near Manila News Philippines At least 13 ‘high-value’ detainees facing drug charges stormed out of Philippine jail by cutting through metal grilles.
February 24, 2017 Kenya: location determines how the law treats you, audit finds News Africa Kenya Where you live goes a long way to determining whether you get justice or not, a new audit of the criminal justice system reveals.
February 23, 2017 United Kingdom: worst offenders could die in jail under plans for whole-life sentences to be examined by MSPs News Long-term prisoners United Kingdom Scotland’s worst criminals would die in jail under plans for whole-life sentences to be examined by MSPs.
February 23, 2017 Some inmates to get better conditions after overpopulation in Turkish jails due to Gülen case arrests News Material conditions Overcrowding Turkey Cet article n’est pas disponible en français. Vous pouvez consulter la version anglaise.
February 23, 2017 Chopped off heads, torn out hearts in brutal Brazil gang war News Brazil Shortly after midnight on New Year’s Eve, hundreds of inmates watched from a Manaus prison yard as the sky lit up with fireworks, paid for by the gangs that dominate the jail system. The revelry continued well into the next day, and inmates celebrated with their wives and girlfriends. But then the…
February 23, 2017 Finland: rise in foreign inmates increases need for digital leap in prisons News Europe Finland A 56-percent increase in the number of foreign prisoners in the last decade has caused Finnish detention facilities to develop their electronic communicating capacity. Digital services have been piloted in prisons for some six months.
February 23, 2017 Ukraine: Rada on its way to amend so-called "Savchenko law" News Europe Ukraine The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has adopted in the first reading the amendments to Article 72 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine on a calculation of prison term actually served by convicts, as the UNIAN correspondent.
February 23, 2017 Cambodia: prison numbers jump 20 percent News Asia Overcrowding Cambodia Cambodia’s already swollen prison population leapt by more than 20 percent last year, according to the Ministry of Interior’s annual report, which acknowledged the influx has caused “serious challenges” with overcrowding, and revealed one-third of inmates are in pre-trial detention.
