News

Types

Topic

Geographic area

Country

Archives

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

November 2013

2012

October 2012
August 2012

2011

May 2011

2008

January 2008

Apply filters Reset

April 4, 2017

Australia: treatment of young offenders moved to Barwon prison akin to torture, former head of youth jail education says

News

Oceania Torture Violence Australia

The former chief of Victoria’s youth jail schooling system claims the State Government misled the public over the use of Barwon adult maximum security prison to jail young offenders — who he says are being treated in a manner he equates to “torture”.

April 3, 2017

What’s going on in Turkey’s prisons?

News

Europe Middle East Turkey

Myriad allegations of rights violations in Turkish prisons have marked the aftermath of last year’s coup attempt as thousands of suspected putschists, political dissidents and journalists landed behind bars. In December, a senior UN official said torture seemed to have been “widespread” in the days…

April 3, 2017

Inmates hurl stones in rare riot at prison in Rwandan capital

News

Africa Protest Violence Rwanda

Inmates protesting living conditions at Gasabo prison in the Rwandan capital of Kigali hurled stones over the prison’s walls on Monday, damaging nearby houses and disrupting traffic, residents and officials said.

April 3, 2017

Les Pays-Bas cherchent une utilité à leurs prisons vides

News

Europe Netherlands

This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.

April 3, 2017

United Arab Emirates: judges show leniency amid growing liberalisation of UAE justice system

News

United Arab Emirates

Judges are more often choosing fines over prison terms to punish minor crimes after new laws gave them more room to be flexible.

April 3, 2017

Turquie : Les détenus kurdes dénoncent leurs conditions d’incarcération

News

Europe Protest Turkey

This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.

April 3, 2017

France : la politique pénale et carcérale française est un échec

News

Europe France

This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.

April 3, 2017

France : le Livre blanc pénitentiaire propose de réguler les entrées en prison

News

Europe France

This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.

April 3, 2017

Thailand: yoga knows no prison

News

Asia Thailand

Women inmates find a different form of release while waiting for the gates to open Dozens of female prisoners slowly stretch their limbs during a relaxing yoga class at Bangkok’s Klong Prem Central Prison. “I feel calm listening to the instructor’s voice, and as my muscles unwind, my heart lifts,”…

April 3, 2017

French prison chief quits ahead of report

News

France

The head of France’s prison service has quit, the justice ministry has announced, two days ahead of a report on the country’s problem-plagued penitentiaries.

April 2, 2017

France : le directeur de l'administration pénitentiaire démissionne

News

Europe France

This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.

April 2, 2017

USA: no license plates here, using art to transcend prison walls

News

Culture United States

More than most artists, the men who gather twice a week for mural class in the B Facility are accustomed to darkness. But the scene they are creating — a tropical rain forest — requires color and light, elements in short supply at Salinas Valley State Prison. “I don’t have much of a legacy,” Jeffre…

April 2, 2017

Burkina Faso soldiers tried for "conspiracy" say they were tortured

News

Africa Torture Burkina Faso

Some 20 Burkinabe soldiers tried for “military conspiracy” on Saturday before the military tribunal in Ouagadougou complain of “inhuman treatment” and “torture” to get confessions from them.

April 1, 2017

New Guatemala prison facility readies female convicts’ return to society

News

Central America and the Caribbean Women Guatemala

Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales and the US assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, William Brownfield, inaugurated Monday the penitentiary management model’s first rehabilitation and reintegration center for some 160 female inmates.

April 1, 2017

Sierra Leone: no transport for prisoners delays justice

News

Africa Sierra Leone

Article 9 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that, “No one shall be subject to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.” However, the lack of prisoner transport trucks in 14 out of 19 Correctional Centres tends to violate that provision.

April 1, 2017

Brazilian government reduces prison funding by 85%

News

Brazil

In the last two years the federal government has reduced by 85% the funding transferred to States for the construction of new prison facilities and reduced the resources available for restructuring and modernizing existing facilities as well.

March 31, 2017

France : "salles de shoot" en prison, le projet abandonné in extremis

News

Europe Health Drugs France

This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.

March 31, 2017

USA: Rikers Island, la prison où fut détenu DSK, bientôt fermée

News

United States

This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.

March 31, 2017

Cameroun : la prison de Maroua étouffe

News

Africa Cameroon

This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.

March 31, 2017

Cameroun : la prison de Maroua étouffe

News

Africa Cameroon

This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version

March 31, 2017

Mise en lumière du recours à la détention pratiqué par la Hongrie, alors que le Sous-comité des Nations Unies pour la prévention de la torture conclut sa visite

News

Europe Torture Violence Hungary

Hungary should immediately address the excessive use of detention, the UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture (SPT) said on Friday at the end of an 11-day visit to the country.

March 31, 2017

France : les prisons d'Ile-de-France totalement saturées

News

Europe France

This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.

March 31, 2017

India: inmates in Bagalkot prison go on hunger strike, demand better quality food

News

Asia Protest India

The prisoners complained of bad food quality.

March 29, 2017

Mexico : deux morts dans l'émeute d'une prison

News

Central America and the Caribbean Protest Violence Mexico

This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.