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April 24, 2019

Kazakhstan: troops enter prison, sparking concerns about treatment of inmates

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Asia Kazakhstan

Relatives of inmates at a prison in Kazakhstan say soldiers with service dogs entered the facility, while concerned activists and familiy members were denied entry. Relatives of inmates at Correctional Colony LA-155/14 near Almaty, Kazakhstan’s largest city, told RFE/RL on April 24 that they saw se…

April 24, 2019

Japan: "ridiculously crazy, but true!"

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Asia Japan

“We are only allowed five letters per month.” Geoffrey is incarcerated in Osaka. He wrote to Prison Insider. Abstracts.

April 17, 2019

Japan: expensive daily products at Osaka prison prompts human rights concern from lawyers

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Asia Material conditions Japan

Tissue paper and other daily products sold at Osaka Prison are so expensive that inmates mostly cannot purchase them, a situation amounting to a human rights violation, according to local lawyers.

April 10, 2019

Russia: detienen las clases de yoga en las cárceles por 'crear' presos homosexuales

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Asia Europe Russia

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March 17, 2019

Taipei: suicide caused by poor conditions at prison, report says

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Asia Discipline Suicide Taiwan

One suicide and several suicide attempts have resulted from poor conditions at the Lyudao Prison on Taitung County’s Green Island (綠島), three Control Yuan members said yesterday, citing an investigation they conducted.

March 14, 2019

India: should 400,000 prisoners get to vote in the 2019 election?

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Asia India

India’s preparing to vote again. Some 900 million of its 1.3 billion people are expected to exercise their franchise over April and May. Amidst this massive celebration of democracy, a small but significant section of the population is still waiting to know whether it will be part of the process. T…

March 11, 2019

Russia: allegations of torture in the Northern Caucasian region

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Asia Europe Torture Russia

The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) has today issued a public statement on the Russian Federation urging the Russian authorities to take decisive action to eradicate the phenomenon of ill-treatment by law enforcement…

March 5, 2019

China trabaja en crear cárceles inteligentes

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Asia China

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February 26, 2019

Japon : ces seniors qui préfèrent la prison

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Asia Japan

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February 25, 2019

Singapore: how Changi Prison is taking to video analytics and facial recognition in a big way

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Asia Singapore

Prison surveillance is going high-tech with smart systems that could help officers be more aware of inmates’ behaviours as part of moves to transform operations.

January 14, 2019

Japan: de plus en plus de japonais âgés se font arrêter pour profiter de la prison

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Asia Japan

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January 7, 2019

Philippines: where 518 inmates sleep in space for 170, and gangs hold it together

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Asia Philippines

For some inmates of the Manila City Jail, making the bed means mopping up sludgy puddles, unfolding a square of cardboard on the tile floor and lying down to sleep in a small, windowless bathroom, wedged in among six men and a toilet. On one recent night at the jail, in Dorm 5, the air was thick an…

January 7, 2019

Russia: prison guards suffer from 'moral fatigue,' officials says

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Asia Europe Russia

Amid a continuing debate about the dire conditions in Russian prisons and repeated cases of torture there, a top official from Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) says its workers are suffering from “moral fatigue” as a result of low wages and daily contacts with inmates who sometimes atta…

December 26, 2018

Thailand: Man electrocuted as he tries to escape from prison

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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

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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

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Asia Europe Russia

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December 17, 2018

Russia: notorious 19th-century Moscow prison will be closed

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Asia Europe Russia

Russian prison officials have announced plans to close the infamous Butyrka prison in central Moscow and relocate its inmates to the city’s outskirts.

December 9, 2018

Russia: prison torture victim 'brought back to life four times'

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Asia Europe Torture Russia

Former inmate Yevgeny Makarov describes how guards choked him with a towel and poured water into his mouth to suffocate him.

December 7, 2018

Russia: inmates In far East launch hunger strike to protest prison conditions

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Asia Europe Material conditions Protest Violence Russia

Eight inmates in Russia’s Far Eastern Sakha-Yakutia region have launched a hunger strike to protest conditions at the prison where they are being held, the head of a regional human monitoring group says.

November 28, 2018

Bangladesh : Footage shows 'prison-like units' built for Rohingya on Bangladesh island

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Asia Bangladesh

Exclusive footage obtained by the Guardian has revealed the stark concrete camps being built for the Rohingya on a sediment island in Bangladesh, as part of a controversial plan to relocate hundreds of thousands of refugees.

November 27, 2018

Japan: Carlos Ghosn, déjà une semaine en prison

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Asia Japan

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October 19, 2018

Thailand: "dans les prisons, on est traités comme des animaux"

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Asia Thailand

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October 9, 2018

Japan: frozen time, frozen days

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Asia Japan

Geoffrey is currently incarcerated in Osaka prison. He tells, for Prison Insider, what a day looks like. But not any day: weekends and holidays, when time seems to stop.

October 1, 2018

Indonesia: prison break, convicts on the run after disaster

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Asia Indonesia

Some 1,200 Indonesian convicts are on the run from three different detention facilities in devastated Sulawesi after the region was rocked by a powerful earthquake and tsunami, a justice ministry official said Monday. One prison in tsunami-struck Palu city - built to hold just 120 people - saw most…