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Amnesty International said in a new damning report today highlighting how prison authorities’ callousness has led or contributed to deaths in custody and irreparable harm to prisoners’ health.
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The Covid-19 has not stopped at prison gates. What measures are taken to guarantee the safety of all prisoners and prison staff? What are the consequences of the pandemic on the living conditions in prisons? — Update 31/12/2021
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The Covid-19 does not stop at prison gates. Prisoners often live in overcrowded cells and unsanitary contexts, sharing cells.
What measures are taken to guarantee the safety of all prisoners and prison staff? What are the consequences of the pandemic on the living conditions in prisons? — Update 31…
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The Covid-19 has not stopped at prison gates. What measures are taken to guarantee the safety of all prisoners and prison staff? What are the consequences of the pandemic on the living conditions in prisons? — Update 31/12/2021
France: mon Noël en prison, au temps de la Covid-19
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France: les détenus étrangers sous-protégés, notamment dans les Outre-mer, selon l’Observatoire international des prisons
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Nouvelle-Zélande: une prison entièrement détruite après six jours d’émeutes
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The Covid-19 does not stop at prison gates. Prisoners often live in overcrowded cells and unsanitary contexts, sharing cells.
What measures are taken to guarantee the safety of all prisoners and prison staff? What are the consequences of the pandemic on the living conditions in prisons? — Update 31…
France : indignité des conditions de détention et pressions subies par un détenu de la prison de Nanterre. Le Conseil d'Etat tacle l'administration.
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France : en Bretagne, des protections gratuites dans les prisons contre la précarité menstruelle
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The United States imprisons the most women in the world. Across the United States, approximately 200,000 women are incarcerated—nearly an 800 percent increase since 1980. Women of color are disproportionately affected by the criminal justice system. In 2017, twice as many Black women and 1.3 times…
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In Mexico, the aftermath of the war on drugs ripples through every aspect of the present, including Covid-19. As for the victims of state violence, it is their families who are left to clean up the mess.
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Russia: former political prisoner takes Russia to court over torture conditions in Crimean prison
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Hearings have begun in occupied Crimea into the lawsuit brought by Kazim Ametov against Russia’s penitentiary service and police over the inhuman conditions he was held prisoner in for over two years. The chances of a Russian-controlled “court” finding in favour of the former political prisoner are…
United States: can correctional facilities negotiate phone contracts that prohibit deposit fees ?
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Yes ! Many do. We review the evidence and find 15 states that said no to unnecessary fees. Who will be next ?
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The Irish Prison Service (IPS) is set to spend more than €1.6m on bras, underwear, anoraks, and other items of clothing for inmates over the next three years.
Nighties, dressing gowns, and tracksuits are among 30 categories of clothing sought by the IPS in an invitation for tenders. The successful…
Belgique : une délégation profite de la visite du roi Philippe pour dénoncer des "conditions indignes"
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The 18-year-old didn’t want to be in jail, he told Department of Correction officials one day in 2019, as he covered the window in his cell with a sheet and mattress. He wanted to be with his family.
He was being held in a “Restrictive Housing Unit” at Manson Youth Institution in Cheshire, confined…
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British prisons and jails must provide for vegan inmates by law; as of January this year, veganism is an explicitly protected belief under the Equality Act 2010, the same as religious beliefs.
This protection is not absolute, nor does veganism have legal protection everywhere in the world. In the U…
United States: California law is step forward but fails to guarantee safety for trans prisoners
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Syiaah Skylit has been imprisoned in California since 2015. Despite multiple requests to be placed in a women’s prison, Skylit, a Black trans woman, has always been incarcerated in the state’s men’s prisons. There, she has faced attacks by incarcerated men as well as sexual abuse and retaliation by…
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The Supreme Court “threw away the opportunity” to clarify guidelines on how humanitarian considerations can be applied to prisoners.
France : faim, manque d’hygiène et chantage, le calvaire des pauvres en prison
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