June 2017
Forgotten prisoners
Portfolio
Central America and the Caribbean
Pre-trial detention
Health
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Haiti
Prisoners are waiting. Most of them will never be judged because their files are missing. Many will die.
Seyi Rhodes is a journalist. He comments some pictures he has shot.
Oceania
Discipline
Facilities
Australia
In an effort to prevent the spread of radical Islamic ideology, Australia is to build a prison facility which will isolate militants from other inmates.
The unit, named ‘Supermax II’, will be a part of Goulburn’s high-security Supermax prison and would house 54 inmates, said the Premier of New Sout…
Oceania
Discipline
Facilities
Australia
The state government will spend tens of millions of dollars on a new Supermax high-security unit at Goulburn jail in a bid to prevent those convicted of terrorism from spreading extreme views, even though Corrections’ own figures show only about five inmates had been radicalised over the past decad…
Oceania
Access to legal rights
Discipline
Rehabilitation
Australia
The Melbourne barrister and human rights advocate Julian Burnside has warned politicians that tightening bail and parole laws at the expense of a right to justice and freedoms “is to hand victory to terrorists”.
His comments follow an announcement from the prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, on Frida…
Central America and the Caribbean
Overcrowding
Honduras
On May 11, 23 prisoners escaped from Honduras’ largest and most overcrowded correctional facility, the Tamara prison. The inmates were part of the “Scorpion” unit, which is reserved for members of the Barrio 18 gang, one of the most powerful and influential gangs in Latin America. Following the esc…
Central America and the Caribbean
Mexico
A gun battle that raged for hours inside a prison inside northern Mexico has left seven dead and 13 injured, authorities reported on Wednesday.
Continuous automatic gunfire was heard late Tuesday at the prison in Ciudad Victoria, the capital of the border state of Tamaulipas.