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August 23, 2016

USA : private prison companies are embracing alternatives to incarceration

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United States

Last Thursday, private prison stocks dropped like a rock when the Department of Justice announced that it would be phasing out its use of for-profit detention facilities. If you were an investor who had no ethical qualms about profiting from an industry that’s been accused of perpetrating a number…

August 18, 2016

États-Unis : le ministère de la Justice ne veut plus recourir aux prisons privées

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United States

Le ministère américain de la justice a annoncé, vendredi 18 août, vouloir mettre fin au recours par l’Etat fédéral aux prisons privées. Cette décision se traduira par le non-renouvellement des contrats arrivant à leur terme signés avec des entreprises gérant des prisons.

August 1, 2016

USA : female inmate brought to court with no pants

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Material conditions United States

In Kentucky, a judge was outraged after a female inmate was brought into her courtroom without pants on, having been denied access to female hygiene products for days. Advocates explain how our prison system is failing women. Appearing in a courtroom in only your underwear is more commonly the stuf…

July 18, 2016

USA : mass incarceration is making infectious diseases worse

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Health United States

Depriving people of condoms and medications puts everyone at risk. Some countries do make condoms available to prisoners, while others cite security issues, or blanket prohibitions of sex. Only last year, California became the second state to require that condoms be available to all prisoners. Even…

July 6, 2016

USA : when prisons are toxic to both humanity and the environment

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Protest United States

Activists are taking aim at mass incarceration, environmental pollution and the toxic prisons where the two problems meet. Nestled in the hills of Letcher County, Kentucky, the Lilley Cornett Woods are a sea of biodiversity. The 554 acres are home to over 530 species of flowering plants and the end…

June 15, 2016

USA : federal officials ignored years of internal warnings about deaths at private prisons

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Health United States

In February, The Nation reported that at least 38 men died in the BOP’s privately run prisons from 1998 to 2014 in the wake of inadequate medical care. An examination of thousands of pages of previously unreleased files revealed that gravely ill prisoners had been left untreated, or relegated to th…

May 24, 2016

USA : Tennessee's new prison stops taking inmates

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United States

Tennessee’s newest prison has stopped taking inmates after just four months of full operation. Records obtained by The Associated Press suggest why.

May 18, 2016

USA : mass reduction of California prison population didn’t cause rise in crime, two studies find

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United States

After California’s prison population reached the crisis stage of overcrowding — with some prisons at 300 percent capacity — the state in 2011 began to parole thousands of inmates to their original counties. Within 15 months, more than 27,500 inmates had been “realigned” from state prisons to county…

April 6, 2016

Etats-Unis : les prisonniers séropositifs privés de soins en Louisiane

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Health United States

Human Right Watch (HRW) a reccueilli les témoignages d’anciens détenus précedemment incarcérés dans des prisons de la Louisiane (sud des États-Unis), sur la dangereuse absence de soins en matière de VIH. HRW a publié à ce sujet un rapport émettant plusieurs recommandations afin de réformer ce systè…