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July 21, 2017

USA: a warrant to search your vagina

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United States

Doubling down on the drug war is likely to result in increased violence, not increased public safety.

July 20, 2017

United States: the accident that changed my life in prison

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North America United States

Even though my boss and I didn’t quite get off to the right start, over the years I grew to respect him and see him more as a person and less as a badge. For one, he did not laugh at me when he caught me crying over the loss of my father, because he, too, had recently been in mourning. In prison, t…

July 20, 2017

Argentina: piden remediar el riesgo sanitario por los desechos cloacales de dos cárceles

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South America Argentina

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July 20, 2017

Kenya: why a gender-sensitive approach is needed, a probation director’s perspective

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Africa Kenya

PRI talked to Paul King’e, County Probation Director in Nakuru, Kenya, to find out how a gender-sensitive approach to community-based programmes can help female offenders in Kenya.

July 19, 2017

United States: nine lessons about criminal justice reform

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North America United States

“Reform” is one of those ambiguous words that mean different things to different people. I think of reform as something that aims to reduce the numbers of Americans who are removed from society and deprived of their freedom, and to do it without making us less safe. In 1972, when I was starting my…

July 19, 2017

Perú: sancionará "apología de terrorismo" con penas de hasta 15 años

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South America Peru

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July 19, 2017

Colombia: el uso de la cárcel se salió de proporción

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Colombia

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July 18, 2017

United States: how to count the hidden prisoners

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North America United States

Now, a new study by the Urban Institute is trying something different. The nonprofit counted how long people currently in prison — many of whom still have long sentences to serve — have been there. Examining data from 43 states and Washington, D.C., the organization’s Justice Policy Center found th…

July 18, 2017

Factsheet: the state of South Africa’s prisons

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South Africa

South Africa’s most famous ex-prisoner wrote in his autobiography that “no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails”. In this factsheet, we provide data to show what’s going on inside South African prisons.

July 18, 2017

France : Qui veut gagner des prisons ?

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Europe France

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July 17, 2017

Philippines: Three killed, one injured in prison breakout in restive Jolo

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Asia Protest Violence Philippines

AUTHORITIES in the Philippines said three inmates were killed on Sunday and another was wounded following a prison escape in Jolo, a southern Island notoriously known as a stronghold of Abu Sayyaf militants. According to the South China Morning Post (via the AFP) the dead and wounded were among 14…

July 17, 2017

Kenya: eight things to remember when implementing a gender-sensitive approach to probation

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Africa Kenya

Throughout the world, probation systems and community-based sentences have been designed for men and by men.

July 17, 2017

USA: what statistics can’t explain about life on parole

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United States

Last Saturday my family and I took the ferry to Governors Island, where we happened upon a gallery hosting an exhibit, “Escaping Time: Art From U.S. Prisons.”

July 15, 2017

Turquie : "Le Monde" et Reporters sans frontières lancent un appel en faveur de la liberté de la presse

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Europe Turkey

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July 15, 2017

Réinsertion : l'enfer de la sortie de prison

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July 14, 2017

Mexico : revisión, no cambio a sistema de Justicia Penal Acusatorio

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Central America and the Caribbean Mexico

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July 14, 2017

Turkey: inside Erdogan’s prisons

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Europe Middle East Turkey

I have been a member of Turkish Parliament representing Istanbul for the opposition Republican People’s Party for the past six years. It has forced me to become a specialist in the Turkish prison system as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (A.K.P.) government has increa…

July 14, 2017

Suisse : "Mes 10 000 jours en prison"

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Europe Switzerland

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July 14, 2017

Singapore: M'sian Prabagaran executed in Singapore by hanging

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Asia Death penalty Singapore

A 29-year old Malaysian convicted in 2014 of drug trafficking in Singapore was executed this morning.

July 13, 2017

Colombia : incidentes en dos cárceles dejan seis heridos y varias pérdidas materiales

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Violence Colombia

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July 13, 2017

United States: my friend killed himself in an Alabama prison

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North America United States

We called him Tyson. He was a short kid. Very good looking. And he was kind of like a child. He was very soft-spoken. We knew he suffered from a mental illness. You can just tell when a person’s not normal. He was like our nephew—like a child that needed to be fostered. Sometimes he would stray aro…

July 13, 2017

Colombia: las cárceles están llenas de jíbaros, no de narcotraficantes

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Colombia

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July 12, 2017

República Dominicana : María Crisálida Díaz lleva educación superior a las cárceles

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Dominican Republic

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July 12, 2017

Argentina : la Suprema Corte apura al gobierno bonaerense para que mejore las cárceles y las comisarías

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South America Argentina

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