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October 25, 2018

Switzerland: dans l’enfer de l’incertitude carcérale

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Europe Switzerland

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October 25, 2018

France: près de 70.714 personnes incarcérées, un nouveau record

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Europe France

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October 25, 2018

France: de moins en moins de malades psychiatriques échappent à la prison

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Europe Health Mental health France

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October 24, 2018

France: les prisons face à la surpopulation et aux contradictions de la justice [Infographie]

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Europe Overcrowding France

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October 23, 2018

Italy : occupying time, occupying one’s mind

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Europe Italy

Frederico is serving a ten-year sentence in Italy. He recounts for Prison Insider, what his days are like in Rome’s Rebibbia prison.

October 22, 2018

Spain : El 90% de la plantilla de la cárcel se adhiere a la huelga del próximo 24 y 26 de octubre

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Europe Spain

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October 21, 2018

France: Et si la prison ne servait à rien ? [video]

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Europe France

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October 21, 2018

Spain: condiciones carcelarias en el Centro Penitenciario Soto del Real

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Europe Spain

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October 21, 2018

France: pourquoi Marseille est «très frileuse» face au projet des Baumettes III

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Europe France

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October 21, 2018

Sierra Leone : doing time in "Hell"

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Africa Sierra Leone

A shaft of light penetrates the foul air through a fist-sized vent. It reveals naked, sweating bodies packed side-by-side like sardines, lying in darkness on a greasy concrete floor. The stench of urine and excreta from a brimming plastic bucket – just one for a cell containing perhaps 20 people –…

October 21, 2018

Finland : cárceles sin rejas y en las que los presos pueden tener videojuegos

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Europe Finland

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October 21, 2018

Argentina: la cárcel de San Martín guarda entre sus muros las historias más oscuras

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South America Argentina

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October 20, 2018

France: pourquoi les femmes incarcérées sont les grandes oubliées

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Women Europe France

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October 20, 2018

France: selfie-Mérogis, les détenus racontent la prison

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Europe France

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October 19, 2018

United Kingdom: las mujeres que quieren trabajar en las cárceles de hombres

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Europe United Kingdom

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October 19, 2018

Thailand: "dans les prisons, on est traités comme des animaux"

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Asia Thailand

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October 18, 2018

France: où seront créées les 15.000 places de prison supplémentaires ?

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Europe France

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October 18, 2018

USA: the isolation of being deaf in prison

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United States

“I didn’t have a way to communicate. And they basically just flipped me the bird.”

October 18, 2018

Syria: les rescapés de l'enfer [audio & video]

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Middle East Syria

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October 16, 2018

France: quelles alternatives à la prison pour les condamnés ? [vidéo]

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Europe France

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October 16, 2018

Canada : feds aim to replace solitary confinement in prisons with ‘structured intervention units’

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North America Discipline Canada

Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale has tabled a new bill in the House of Commons aimed at ridding Canadian prisons of solitary confinement. Bill C-83 suggests designating “a penitentiary or an area in a penitentiary as a structured intervention unit for the confinement of inmates who cannot be ma…

October 16, 2018

Australia: Canberra prison close to capacity

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Oceania Overcrowding Australia

Canberra prison is bursting at the seams, as a spike in male inmates stretches the jail’s population to record levels. A total of 507 prisoners were locked up at Alexander Maconochie Centre on June 19 and 25 this year, four inmates shy of capacity. The jail had an average daily population of 474 de…

October 16, 2018

Bolivie : proyecto de trato diferenciado beneficiará a más de 1.500 mujeres en cárceles

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South America Bolivia

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October 15, 2018

France : le centre éducatif fermé pour mineurs, une alternative imparfaite à la prison

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Europe France

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