Information, topic by topic, on prisons across the world

May 25, 2018

États-Unis : du porc pour les prisonniers musulmans

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Religion United States

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May 21, 2018

USA: portrait of despair, opioids land more women behind bars

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Women United States

On opposite sides of the county jail, a mother and her son chat about school, girls, birthday gifts — and their future together. They aren’t allowed to see each other face-to-face, so the inmate and the fifth-grader connect by video.

May 20, 2018

USA: the right way to fix the prisons

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United States

President Trump gave a rare display of empathy at a prison-reform meeting at the White House on Friday.

May 20, 2018

USA: why are for-profit US prisons subjecting detainees to forced labor ?

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United States

Private Prisons Have For Years Enriched Themselves By Exploiting Detained Immigrant Labor. They must be held accountable.

May 18, 2018

USA: new edition of Unstoppable

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Culture United States

Unstoppable is an antiauthoritarian and anti-prison publication for trans, non-binary, and women prisoners. They proudly announce their second issue.

May 15, 2018

États-Unis : les droits des personnes trans en prison gravement menacés par l'administration Trump

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LGBTQI United States

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May 10, 2018

USA: strike breaks out at angola prison as momentum builds for national prison strike

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United States

On Tuesday, inmates took part in a work stoppage at the infamous Angola prison in Louisiana to decry prison slavery.

May 10, 2018

USA: will congress authorize indefinite detention of Americans?

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Asia United States

Under the guise of exercising supervisory power over the president’s ability to use military force, Congress is considering writing Donald Trump a blank check to indefinitely detain US citizens with no criminal charges.

May 9, 2018

USA: how over-incarceration is driving a push for criminal justice reform

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United States

A conversation with Jasmine Heiss from the Vera Institute of Justice about a recent poll that uncovers American’s souring sentiment toward incarceration policy.

May 8, 2018

USA: judge approves settlement mandating air conditioning at hot Texas prison

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Material conditions United States

“I never dreamt we’d get the Pack Unit air-conditioned,” the federal judge said at a Houston hearing.

May 8, 2018

USA: remembering Japanese-American incarceration during WWII

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Culture United States

As part of its mission to bear witness to the lessons of history and to remember victims of persecution, Music of Remembrance has commissioned a new musical work about the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II by Seattle composer Christophe Chagnard.

May 7, 2018

USA: mass incarceration no more?

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United States

There’s good news on a subject usually associated with the social ills of the United States: incarceration. According to newly released Justice Department statistics, the prison population fell 1.4 percent in 2016, to 1,505,000.

May 4, 2018

États-Unis : l’incarcération de masse des hommes noirs dénoncée dans une série photo

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United States

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May 3, 2018

USA: a transgender inmate says she was raped in a 'discriminatory and dangerous' Colorado men's prison

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LGBTQI United States

A transgender inmate who is suing Colorado’s corrections agency says she was raped at a men’s prison hours after a federal judge denied her request to block the prison from keeping her in a disciplinary unit, according to court records and the woman’s attorney.

May 1, 2018

Aux Etats-Unis, la "gay panic" permet toujours d'éviter la prison pour le meurtre d'un homosexuel

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Justice United States

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April 30, 2018

USA: women in prison take home economics, while men take carpentry

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Women United States

Decades after a government report on deep inequity in the vocational offerings of the nation’s criminal-justice system, little has changed.

April 26, 2018

United States of America : staying awake while doing time

Testimonial

United States

“*We believe that life is happening anywhere but here.”* Robert Lee Allen is imprisoned in the state of Michigan. Here is his testimonial.

April 25, 2018

USA: female incarceration reveals a cruel and broken justice system

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Women United States

Although boys are disproportionately represented in juvenile and criminal proceedings, girls are the fastest-growing segment of the juvenile population and are often in the system for reasons very different from boys. A groundbreaking report released in 2015 unearthed a “sexual abuse to prison pipe…

April 24, 2018

USA: the première of “O.G.,” the film made inside an Indiana Prison

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Culture United States

The film “O.G.,” set and shot in a prison in Indiana, using inmates and guards as cast and crew, had its première on Friday night, as part of the Tribeca Film Festival

April 23, 2018

USA: 1 dead and 11 treated for overdoses at Northern California prison

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Drugs United States

Suspected drug overdoses at a Northern California prison over the weekend left one inmate dead and sent 11 others for treatment, authorities said Monday.

April 22, 2018

États-Unis : prison, chiffres

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United States

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April 22, 2018

USA : un système carcéral violent et inégalitaire

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Torture Violence United States

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April 20, 2018

USA: is rural America getting tired of tough-on-crime policies?

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United States

Across political, racial, and geographic lines, more Americans seem ready to move past the age of mass incarceration.

April 16, 2018

USA: sept morts, 17 blessés dans une mutinerie dans une prison

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Protest Violence United States

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