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L’Argentine lance un vaste chantier pour augmenter les places de prison

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South America Argentina

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March 3, 2017

Argentine : sept détenus brûlés dans une mutinerie

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South America Protest Violence Argentina

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January 17, 2017

Argentina: La Cárcel como Depósito

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South America Health Argentina

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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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October 24, 2016

Argentina : María Eugenia Vidal removió a toda la cúpula del Servicio Penitenciario Bonaerense

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South America Justice Argentina

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September 5, 2016

Argentina packs prisons with drug offenders

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South America Drugs Argentina

The number of prison inmates in Argentina convicted for drug offenses has more than doubled in a decade, a red flag for the country’s growing role in the drug trade and the risk of future prison overcrowding. The prison population sentenced on the basis of Law 23.737, Argentina’s anti-drug legislat…

June 17, 2016

Argentina : el lado más oscuro de las cárceles

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South America Argentina

La Nación accedió en exclusiva a las imágenes de los relevamientos realizados por la Procuraduría de Violencia Institucional (Procuvin) en diferentes prisiones; cuáles fueron las principales violaciones a los Derechos Humanos detectadas

May 14, 2016

Argentina : inmates live with rats, bats and garbage in jails

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South America Argentina

“The nation’s prisons will be healthy and clean, since they are for security purposes and not to punish the convicts held in them”, the Argentine constitution says, but the fact is that inmates in those jails share their cells with rats, cockroaches and, according to some complaints, even bats.

July 18, 2015

Argentina : prisoners gain new focus through pinhole photography

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South America Argentina

“People think prison is like a horror film,” says Celeste Moyano, sitting in the library of the Unidad 31 women’s penitentiary outside Buenos Aires. She participates in a photography workshops facilitated by YoNoFui, a social organisation that runs support and education schemes for women both in an…

July 2, 2015

Amérique du sud : étude sur l'enfermement carcéral

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Argentina

Bien que clos et secret, le microcosme carcéral est toujours le reflet de la société qu’il abrite. C’est en suivant cette idée que le photoreporter italien Valerio Bispuri a visité 74 prisons Sud Américaines pendant une dizaine d’années. Étude sur l’enfermement et radiographie des problématiques so…