December 31, 2018 Australia: call for air-conditioners in 'inhumane' cells after outback heatwave triggers prison riot News Oceania Material conditions Australia Prisoners forced to live in cells during a scorching Red Centre heatwave should be allowed access to air-conditioning as a human right, a Territory union leader says.
December 30, 2018 France: un détenu s’évade de la prison de Fresnes News Europe France This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version or the Spanish version.
December 30, 2018 Spain: piden que empresas de telefonía bloqueen celulares en la cárcel News Europe Spain This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.
December 28, 2018 United States of America: the moral horror of America’s prisons [+audio] News United States Congress isn’t doing enough to fix the current U.S. penal system, which is a failure of historic proportions.
December 26, 2018 France : un nouveau terrible record News Europe France This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
December 26, 2018 Italy: un projet pilote pour prévenir la radicalisation des femmes en prison News Women Europe Religion Italy This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
December 26, 2018 USA: Inmates dined in SC prison cells after toilets spewed raw sewage, SCDC says News United States Twelve South Carolina inmates were left in cells for hours after a backup spewed raw sewage from prison toilets, an SCDC spokesman confirmed to The State.
December 26, 2018 Thailand: Man electrocuted as he tries to escape from prison News Asia Violence Thailand A Thai prisoner died early Tuesday after being electrocuted by high-voltage barbed wire as he attempted to escape, police said. Wiwat Aksorsom, 32, broke free from his cell just after midnight along with two other prisoners and tried to scale the six-metre (20-ft) walls of his prison in southern Su…
December 26, 2018 Japan: deprivation of liberty, deprivation of humanity Testimonial Asia Japan Geoffrey is currently incarcerated in Osaka prison. He tells, for Prison Insider, what any day in a Japanese prison looks like.
December 24, 2018 Russia: le directeur d'une prison suspendu après des cas de travaux forcés News Asia Europe Russia This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
December 24, 2018 USA: thousands held in NY's prisons will spend the holidays in solitary confinement News Discipline United States Roger Clark still remembers Christmas in solitary confinement. Clark spent five years at Southport Correctional Facility, New York’s first supermax prison dedicated to 23-hour lockdown, after defending himself from another prisoner’s assault.
December 24, 2018 UK: the harsh reality of being released from prison after more than a decade behind bars News Europe United Kingdom The prisoner served more than 10 years behind bars and was then faced with re-building her life.
December 24, 2018 Belgium: les détenus pourront bientôt téléphoner pour des prix moins élevés News Europe Social ties Belgium This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
December 24, 2018 Venezuela: Bachelet podría conocer situación de las cárceles News South America Venezuela This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.
December 24, 2018 United Kingdom: campaigners call for landline phones in prison cells News Europe Social ties United Kingdom There are calls for landline phones to be installed in prison cells in Scotland to help keep families connected.
December 23, 2018 Argentina: Mujeres ya están al frente de las cárceles bonaerenses más temidas News South America Argentina This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.
December 23, 2018 UK: Prisons ban Christmas cards with glitter due to drugs epidemic in jails News Europe Drugs United Kingdom Measure in England and Wales aims to combat problem of post being sprayed with drugs.
December 22, 2018 USA: ‘Me rociaron con gas pimienta más de 10 veces mientras estaba en el sistema de justicia juvenil’ News United States This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.
December 20, 2018 Ukraine: little has changed Testimonial Europe Ukraine Sergiy was incarcerated during four years between 2001 and 2005 in the prison of Cherkasy.For Prison Insider, he describes how a day used to be like for him.
December 20, 2018 Australia: why are our prisons full of domestic violence victims? News Oceania Violence Australia The number of women in prison is continuing to soar, new data shows. But advocates warn we can’t arrest the increase until we start properly addressing domestic abuse, which affects an overwhelming majority of women behind bars.
December 20, 2018 Prisons Portfolio Europe Material conditions Overcrowding France From 2011 to 2014, Grégoire Korganow went inside some 20 corrections facilities and photographed everything he saw: inside the cells, courtyard, visitation booths, showers, solitary confinement block, and more, by day and by night.
December 19, 2018 Spain: una huelga encubierta de funcionarios de prisiones pone al límite 15 cárceles News Europe Spain This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.
December 19, 2018 USA: here’s what the prison reform bill actually does — and doesn’t do News United States Prison reform advocates are hailing the Senate passage of the bipartisan First Step Act as a watershed moment for American criminal justice, which could positively impact the lives of thousands of federal prisoners.
December 19, 2018 Colombia: cárceles de Manizales registran un cierre de año negativo News South America Colombia This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.