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July 4, 2017

South Africa: setback for oversight role into prison deaths

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South Africa

The Judicial Inspectorate of Correctional Services (JICS) electronic system used to analyse unnatural deaths of inmates in custody has been deemed dysfunctional.

July 3, 2017

Brazil: the chronic crisis of prisons

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Brazil

Brutal violence has exploded in the first months of 2017, leaving more than 140 inmates dead. This is the latest reminder of the chronic crisis in Brazil’s prison system, which has persisted for decades. A policy of mass incarceration in place for more than 20 years has resulted in severe overcro…

July 3, 2017

South Africa : Violent chaos as riot breaks out at Pretoria prison [video]

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Violence South Africa

Sunday afternoon was not a peaceful day for staff at the Kgosi Mampuru II prison in Pretoria. As many as 19 people were injured after prisoners started rioting after expressing issues with how parole was being dealt with.

July 3, 2017

Le Voyage à Nantes met les artistes en prison

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Culture France

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July 3, 2017

Political police torture in Caracas (Venezuela)

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South America Torture Violence Venezuela

Electric shocks, beatings, waterboarding, asphyxiation with chemicals… A report denounces these practices.

July 2, 2017

Riot breaks out at Pretoria prison [video]

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Protest South Africa

Prisoners serving life and long term sentences at Pretoria’s Kgosi Mampuru II prison rioted on Sunday afternoon. The injury count ranged from two to 19‚ as prisoners disputed the official count.

June 30, 2017

Uruguay : ¿Que se pudran en la cárcel?

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South America Uruguay

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June 30, 2017

Coopération Cameroun-Union Européenne : un plaidoyer pour l’encadrement des mineurs en détention

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Africa Europe Cameroon

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June 29, 2017

Uruguay : experto de ONU visitó a menores recluidos: "Uruguay vive de espalda" al tema

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South America Uruguay

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June 29, 2017

Turquie, zone carcérale

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Europe Turkey

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June 28, 2017

Philippines bill proposes jail time for unenthusiastic anthem singers

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Asia Philippines

(CNN)Philippines citizens may need to start exercising their vocal chords. The country’s House of Representatives has approved a bill requiring members of the public to sing the country’s national anthem, Lupang Hinirang, “with fervor” whenever it is played publicly.

June 28, 2017

Cambodia: Drug war fuels crowding, health concerns

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Asia Health Drugs Cambodia

With authorities expressing a desire to extend the Kingdom’s controversial drug war beyond its six-month window, observers say an outbreak of respiratory illness among prisoners in Kampong Speu’s provincial prison last week has underscored the medical pressures created by an ongoing prison overcrow…

June 28, 2017

Thailand : New anti-torture committee greeted with skepticism, criticism

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Asia Torture Thailand

As Thailand has delayed passage of legislation to criminalize torture and enforced disappearances, a committee created by the junta leader to investigate the matter met for the first time Monday. The committee, chaired by Justice Minister Suwaphan Tanyuvardhana, was set up under Gen. Prayuth Chan-o…

June 27, 2017

China: 13 Chinese sentenced to death for drugs offences as thousands look on in public trial

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Asia Drugs China

Two courts in southern China’s Guangdong province sentenced 13 people to death for producing and selling drugs at a public trial in a stadium in the city of Shanwei watched by some 10,000 people, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

June 27, 2017

Argentina : hubo 673 casos de torturas en cárceles y comisarías bonaerenses durante 2016

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South America Torture Argentina

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June 27, 2017

Indonesia: prison woes: packed but understaffed

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Asia Indonesia

A Bali prison break by four inmates last Monday has again shone the spotlight on longstanding issues of overcapacity and understaffing at Indonesia’s correctional facilities. The challenge of securing over 200,000 inmates in fewer than 500 prisons in the country was further highlighted when a warde…

June 27, 2017

Australia: magistrate cites 'brutal' jail conditions in sentencing two young men

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Oceania Material conditions Australia

Two young Northern Territory men who went on a crime spree across three jurisdictions have been sent to jail. Ethan Austral, 18, and Rhys McLean, 23, were involved in police pursuits through South Australia and into New South Wales last December. They were passengers in a car driven by Ethan Austra…

June 27, 2017

India : Police torture reportedly leads to couple attempting self-immolation

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Asia Torture India

Tension prevailed at the district collectorate here today when a couple attempted to self-immolate accusing an police inspector and a retired Assistant Commissioner of police (ACP) of giving torture over a financial transaction with a private lender.

June 27, 2017

USA: jails are replacing visits with video chats and families are devastated

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Social ties United States

Governor Brown approved the state’s 2017 budget along with a measure that stops jails from continuing to replace in-person visitation with video calling and gives inmate families their first hour of video visitations each week for free.

June 27, 2017

Latvia: electronic monitoring implemented in Latvia with Norway Grants

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Europe Latvia

Parallel to the development of the draft laws, the preparation of the electronic monitoring public procurement procedures was initiated. This procurement was the most complex in the history of the SPS and the implementation of the procedure was unexpectedly time consuming. The development of the dr…

June 26, 2017

Chine : le Nobel de la paix Liu Xiaobo libéré de prison, en phase terminale de cancer

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Asia China

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June 26, 2017

South Africa: ‘Sun City’ prison inmates treated to a saucy ‘strip show’

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South Africa

The prison authorities claim they approved a Youth Day celebration, not a mini Moulin Rouge.

June 26, 2017

Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo released from Chinese prison with late-stage cancer

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Asia China

Liu was awarded Nobel peace prize in 2010 while serving 11-year sentence for inciting subversion of state power

June 26, 2017

Tanzania: more holes poked in the DPP's bail powers

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Tanzania

Two prominent law professors, Gamaliel Mgongo Fimbo and Chris Maina Peter, are at one on the unconstitutionality of a provision granting powers on the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to deny bail to accused persons in criminal proceedings.