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April 13, 2018

Roumaine : pourquoi le pays veut vider ses prisons

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Romania

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April 13, 2018

UK: chemical castration of sex offenders re-examined

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United Kingdom

Treating sex offenders with chemical castration is to be reviewed by the Scottish Government amid a clamour to increase its use after the row over the planned release of rapist John Worboys.

April 12, 2018

Uruguay: condena carcelaria de la ONU

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South America Uruguay

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April 12, 2018

France : à la prison de Fresnes, le pouvoir de l’argent

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Europe France

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April 11, 2018

Twenty dead in attempted breakout from Brazil prison

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South America Protest Violence Brazil

A number of inmates at a jail in the northern Brazilian city of Belem have died during an attempted mass breakout.

April 10, 2018

USA: solitary confinement of mentally ill persists in Oregon prison

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Discipline Mental health United States

The more than three dozen men incarcerated in the behavioral health unit at the Oregon State Penitentiary spend almost 23 hours a day confined to a dark, small cell — a practice akin to “torture,” according to disability rights leaders.

April 10, 2018

Myanmar: they documented a massacre. Their prize is a prison cell.

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Asia Myanmar (Burma)

The two journalists, who were investigating a massacre of 10 Muslim Rohingya men in Rakhine State, face up to 14 years in prison under the British colonial-era secrets act.

April 9, 2018

USA: video visitation system fails at Virginia Beach jail, preventing visits for more than a week

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Social ties United States

Virginia Beach’s jail replaced face-to-face visits between inmates and their family and friends with a video visitation system in 2005. The system, however, has become increasingly unreliable and will be replaced with a new web-based one that no longer will require visitors to come to the facility.

April 9, 2018

Suisse : l'absentéisme plombe la prison de Champ-Dollon.

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Europe Switzerland

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April 9, 2018

Suisse : des prisons au rayon X

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Europe Switzerland

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April 9, 2018

France : les Français veulent des conditions de détention plus sévères pour les détenus et moins de moyens pour les prisons

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Europe Material conditions France

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April 9, 2018

Canada : plaidoyer contre les dérives des conditions de libération

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North America Drugs France

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April 9, 2018

Africa : "Abolition is the irreversible trend”

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Death penalty Côte d’Ivoire

Monday 9 April 2018 marks the opening of the first day of debates at the African Congress Against the Death Penalty. This year it will concentrate on Africa which is en route to becoming the next abolitionist continent.

April 9, 2018

France : demandes de visites en hausse et visiteurs de prison pas assez nombreux

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Europe Social ties France

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April 9, 2018

España: los funcionarios de prisiones reclaman ser 'agentes de autoridad' para 'intimidar' a los presos y evitar agresiones

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Spain

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April 9, 2018

Las prisiones en América Latina, verdaderas “bombas de tiempo”

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April 8, 2018

New Zeland: Dutch prison system offers inspiration to New Zealand

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Justice Facilities New Zealand

New Zealand’s prison population is skyrocketing, and our jails are at breaking point. The Netherlands has the opposite problem - they’re closing down prisons because inmate numbers have plummeted.

April 6, 2018

USA: Washington State Penitentiary releases official count of inmates on hunger strike

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United States

Penitentiary Spokeswoman Allison Window told the publication that about 1,315 inmates in six housing units were refusing their meals.

April 3, 2018

USA: inside a private prison, blood, suicide and poorly paid guards

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Suicide Violence United States

JACKSON, Miss. — On the witness stand and under pressure, Frank Shaw, the warden of the East Mississippi Correctional Facility, could not guarantee that the prison was capable of performing its most basic function.

April 3, 2018

Brazil: "I have no thought of escaping", inside the prisons with no guards

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Brazil

In a country where jails are seen as ticking timebombs, a system of self-rule among inmates has proved a striking success

April 2, 2018

Venezuela: attorney general says prison authorities were negligent in fire that caused deaths of 68 inmates

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South America Violence Venezuela

Venezuela’s attorney general said Monday that five jailed officials had been negligent in their handling of a prison fire that killed 68 people last week in central Carabobo state, and admitted that the country’s penal system is seriously overcrowded.

April 2, 2018

World: there are more women in prison than ever before

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Women

Our series takes a global look at the problem: why women are ending up in prison, what it’s like for them inside and how activists are fighting to keep people out.

April 2, 2018

Venezuela: "muerte de 68 presos no es mi competencia”, ministra de prisiones

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South America Violence Venezuela

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April 1, 2018

Fire in Mexican prison kills at least six police officers

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Central America and the Caribbean Protest Violence Mexico

VERACRUZ, Mexico — Six police officers died on Sunday from smoke inhalation after prisoners started a fire while resisting an effort to transfer dangerous inmates out of a prison in Mexico’s Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, the authorities said.