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July 31, 2018

Ukraine's decrepit prisons languish despite promised reform

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Europe Ukraine

KIEV: Around 20 men are crammed into the foul-smelling cell, where cockroaches wander across the walls and barred windows.

July 31, 2018

Belgique : mini-prisons, le projet de Koen Geens se précise

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Europe Belgium

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July 30, 2018

USA: a prison phone giant’s ploy to further exploit inmates

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Social ties United States

Securus Technologies’s attempt to merge with a competitor would let a company known for price-gouging inmates become larger and even more powerful.

July 30, 2018

República Dominicana: las cárceles del irrespeto

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Dominican Republic

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July 30, 2018

Uruguay: en la nueva cárcel de Punta de Rieles "hubo mucho ausentismo laboral"

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South America Uruguay

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July 30, 2018

España: el gobierno contacta ya con las cárceles de la Comunidad para acercar presos de ETA

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Spain

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July 29, 2018

Argentina: "La cárcel de Gualeguaychú no se puede sostener, hay que dejarla de lado”manifestó Romero

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South America Argentina

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July 29, 2018

Uruguay: palo, tortura y hambre en la "cárcel modelo"

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South America Torture Uruguay

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July 29, 2018

USA: in battle for freedom, women inmates fight blazes

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Women United States

About 4,000 inmates each week fight wildfires alongside civilian firefighters. That number includes approximately 250 women.

July 27, 2018

Denmark introduces prison intelligence service

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Denmark

Increasingly tense conditions related to the presence of gang members in Denmark’s prisons have resulted in the introduction of a new intelligence agency.

July 27, 2018

Lithuania: UN committee calls on the country to investigate CIA prison suspicions, ensure LGBTI rights

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LGBTQI Lithuania

The United Nations Human Rights Committee has called on Lithuania to fully investigate suspicions that a secret CIA prison operated in Lithuania.

July 26, 2018

France : nouveau record dans les prisons françaises avec 70.710 personnes incarcérées au 1er juillet

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Europe France

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July 25, 2018

France : comment la prison s'adapte à ses vieux détenus

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Europe France

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July 25, 2018

UK: prison tensions risk boiling over as heatwave hits 'oven-like' jails

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United Kingdom

Fears over rocketing temperatures and poor ventilation.

July 25, 2018

El Salvador : tricot et peinture en prison pour des ex-membres de gangs repentis

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Central America and the Caribbean El Salvador

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July 25, 2018

Western Australia prison escape prompts warnings for residents to lock doors

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Oceania Australia

Five inmates on the run and another five captured after breakout at Greenough prison.

July 24, 2018

Russia: guard accused of suffocating inmate to death

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Asia Europe Russia

A prison guard in western Russia’s Bryansk region has been detained on suspicion of suffocating an inmate to death by binding his face with a piece of cloth.

July 24, 2018

Russia: rare witness to horror of Stalin's Gulag prisons dies

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Asia Europe Russia

A rare survivor of the harshest Stalin-era labour camps has died aged 89 in Russia’s far east.

July 23, 2018

Indonesia: search on for two dozen inmates after Indonesia prison break

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Asia Indonesia

Indonesian authorities are searching for two dozen inmates who escaped from a prison by sawing through the iron bars of a ventilation window, police said Monday (Jul 23).

July 23, 2018

Six arrested in wake of leaked Russian prison torture video

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Asia Europe Torture Russia

Six prison employees have been arrested and at least 17 fired following the release of a 2017 video showing a detainee being tortured at a prison outside Moscow.

July 23, 2018

Indonésie : de luxueuses cellules de prison en échange de pots-de-vin

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Asia Indonesia

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July 22, 2018

USA: reforming solitary confinement at an infamous California prison

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Discipline United States

Oprah Winfrey visits Pelican Bay State Prison where she reports on conditions in the “SHU” isolation unit and on a nationwide reform movement that is reducing the use of solitary confinement.

July 21, 2018

Monde : au moins 1200 français sont détenus à l’étranger

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France

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July 19, 2018

Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée : prison de Romana, une lueur d'espoir en enfer

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Africa Papua New Guinea

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