Information, topic by topic, on prisons across the world

July 27, 2020

Egypt: le personnel de santé harcelé et emprisonné

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July 27, 2020

Niger: Surpeuplées, les prisons sont des incubateurs pour les djihadistes

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July 27, 2020

Bolivia: OMCT expresa preocupación por situación sanitaria en cárceles del país y pide modificar decreto de amnistía

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July 24, 2020

USA: après des SOS lancés par des détenus, une prison recouvre les fenêtres

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July 24, 2020

Mexico: Sobrepoblación en cárceles aviva contagios de covid, critica Cruz Roja

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July 24, 2020

Brazil : La pandemia de coronavirus sigue avanzando en las cárceles ante la desesperación de los familiares

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July 22, 2020

DRC: les prisons considérées comme des mouroirs

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July 16, 2020

Colombia: Inpec confirma la reducción de casos de COVID-19 al interior de cárceles

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July 15, 2020

France: single-occupancy cells are possible

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The National Union of Prison Directors sent an open letter to the President of the Republic on 20 April 2020 stating that it is “no longer possible to claim that single-occupancy cells are unachievable”.

July 15, 2020

Mexico: Registra ONG mil 100 contagios de Covid-19 en cárceles

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July 15, 2020

Europe: CPT urges intensifying temporary measures introduced to prevent COVID-19

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the CPT says that further steps are needed to reduce the use of remand detention

July 15, 2020

USA: JAY-Z, Yo Gotti, and team ROC file lawsuit over Mississippi prison conditions

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The class action complaint details subpar hygiene protocols, lack of proper healthcare, and more at Mississippi State Penitentiary Parchman

July 15, 2020

Cuba: Humiliation non-stop

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Jacques was arrested in February 2017 by the Cuban criminal justice system and was immediately incarcerated in a state owned highly secured prison, held incommunicado for 48 days. Her daughter became fatherless overnight. He was transferred to France in September 2019. He narrates to Prison Insider…

July 8, 2020

USA: many deaths at New York state prisons are preventable, review finds

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A state prisoner who’d been losing a dramatic amount of weight began to vomit uncontrollably, and was repeatedly given Ibuprofen that made her internal bleeding worse before she died. Another person behind bars waited nearly an hour for a nurse to call an ambulance after he collapsed and had a seiz…

July 8, 2020

USA: No one should have to die in prison

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The words “help we matter 2” are seen written in a window at the Cook County Department of Corrections, housing one of the nation’s largest jails, in Chicago, Illinois, on April 9, 2020.

July 2, 2020

Colombia: se disparan casos de coronavirus en cárceles de Cali, Cartagena y El Espinal

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July 2, 2020

Chile: la realidad de las cárceles en pandemia y la falta de información pública

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July 2, 2020

South Africa: Pietermaritzburg prisoners fear Covid-19

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Inmates serving lengthy sentences for serious and violent crimes say basic regulations to combat the spread of the coronavirus are being flouted, putting their lives at risk.

July 2, 2020

Egypt: ‘It would spread quickly in those cells’

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Families of prisoners at notorious Tora complex concerned publicised efforts to contain virus are purely cosmetic

July 2, 2020

USA: the coronavirus crisis inside prisons won’t stay behind bars

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Federal officials recognized the danger of the spread of coronavirus in prisons early, but have dragged their feet releasing at-risk inmates.

July 2, 2020

USA: massive COVID-19 outbreak at a southern NM prison hits just one type of inmates — sex offenders. That’s by design.

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As the coronavirus established a foothold in southern New Mexico’s Otero County Prison Facility in mid-May, state officials quietly moved 39 inmates out of the massive complex near the Texas border to another prison near Santa Fe. The inmates shared something in common: None was a sex offender. In…

July 1, 2020

Canada: Inuit overrepresented in federal prisons’ COVID-19 cases

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“They were afraid, they were stressed, they were kept in isolation”

July 1, 2020

USA: Coronavirus cases skyrocket at Bay Area prison after inmate transfers

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Some men hadn’t been tested for weeks prior to being moved to San Quentin, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

July 1, 2020

France: Inequality of life during an epidemic

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Those imprisoned or detained are in forced confinement, states Didier Fassin. He has published a forum on the Liberation website. He questions whether the “sense of responsibility and solidarity” advocated by Emmanuel Macron stops at the doors of prisons and overcrowded detention centres.