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Education behind bars is often an overlooked solution to reducing recidivism, fostering economic reintegration, and building a more inclusive society. With India’s prison population exceeding 550 000 imprisoned persons as of 2023, tapping into this human potential can address critical socio-economi…
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New Zealand
Contracts for the Improving Mental Health Service - which provided counselling and therapy to 4047 incarcerated people last year - is due to end from June 2025. Mental health workers fear some imprisoned people who are suicidal, psychotic or suffering other serious psychological problems will be le…
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United States
Danish architecture studio Schmidt Hammer Lassen and American studio DLR Group have been selected to redesign California’s San Quentin State Prison into a rehabilitation centre that will utilise influences from the Scandinavian incarceration system.
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Ireland
More investment is needed to better support people struggling with addiction, poverty, and trauma to reduce Ireland’s prison population, a general election hustings by the Irish Prison Reform Trust (IPRT) has heard.
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South Africa
The department of correctional services (DCS) says 66 million euros is required to refurbish the Johannesburg Sun City Prison.
The renovation project will address critical issues, including plumbing, electrical systems, and overcrowding, and will be phased across various sections of the prison.
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United Kingdom
Nearly one-third of incarcerated people at La Moye Prison are on medication for mental-health conditions, the JEP can reveal. Figures released under the Freedom of Information Act show that 38 of the prison’s 138, or 27.5% of incarcerated people, as of July 2024 are on medication associated with ma…
Europe
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United Kingdom
At HMP Prescoed, an open prison near Usk in south-east Wales, imprisoned people are getting their hands dirty at Cilgwri Farm, a fully functioning dairy operation. Here, imprisoned people help manage a large herd of dairy cows and their calves, learning not only essential farming skills but, perhap…
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New Zealand
Prison reform advocates say the Corrections department is unable to deliver effective rehabilitation for imprisoned people.
In the last financial year, Corrections spent $376 million on rehabilitation - but most of the programmes it ran reduced reoffending by less than 2 percent.
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Israel
Thousands of Palestinians are currently deprived of their liberty by the Israeli authorities, a figure that has risen sharply in the last year. What is the current situation? Answers from the Palestinian association Addameer.
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Venezuela
Venezuela’s government on Saturday released some of the thousands of people who were detained during and after deadly protests that followed the July presidential election.
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Pakistan
Incarcerated mothers constitute a rapidly increasing segment of the prison population in Punjab. According to data released by Punjab Prisons, as of last month, the total number of female prisoners stood at 1,218. Of these, 137 are mothers with children and 104 are under trial.
Burying the problems
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Inside Outside
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Prison Insider, represented by Clara Grisot, contributed twelve compositions to the book InsideOutside to articulate, in a few words, the current challenges of prison life. Seventh piece: mental health.
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Lebanon
One of the collateral effects of the ongoing war in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah has been the worsening of prison overcrowding, now exceeding 300 percent of capacity. Lebanon’s acting Public Prosecutor Jamal Hajjar issued a directive to expedite the release process for individuals held in p…
Who benefits from prison?
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Prison Insider hosted a workshop at this year’s edition of Concertina on the human and social cost of prison in Haiti, Tunisia, Morocco, and France. Learn more about the key points of this discussion.
Morocco: ink flows
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Morocco
Hicham Mansouri is a journalist. He was arrested in 2015 on false charges and imprisoned. He shares his journey, his life in detention, and the investigation he conducted behind bars.
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South Africa
Overcrowding, ageing and creaking infrastructure and shortage of staff were some of the problems witnessed by members of the parliamentary portfolio committee on correctional services during a visit to some Gauteng prisons this week.
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Iran
Varisheh Moradi, a political prisoner serving her sentence in Tehran’s Evin Prison, has begun a hunger strike to protest the death sentences handed to female activists in Iran. Moradi, imprisoned in the women’s ward of Evin, started the hunger strike on Thursday.
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Indonesia
In 2015, the President of Indonesia declared a war on drugs. The death penalty became one of the major tools of this campaign. Albert Wirya works for LBH Masyarakat. We asked him about the use of the death penalty and the efforts being made to abolish it. Interview.
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United States
Manatee county jail, which has 1,200 incarcerated people and is located on the south-east side of Tampa Bay, in the path of the hurricane that was roaring towards it across the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, will not be evacuating, a representative of the jail told Newsweek on Tuesday.