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July 21, 2017

Guatemala: aldana apoya cerrar cárceles en sede militar

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Central America and the Caribbean Guatemala

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Source: La Prensa Grafica

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July 21, 2017

España: la Audiencia Nacional prohíbe el velo islámico en las cárceles si dificulta la identificación

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Religion Spain

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Source: Confilegal

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July 21, 2017

Colombia: FARC confía en que se cumpla liberación de presos políticos

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Colombia

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Source: Contagio Radio

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July 21, 2017

United States : mentally ill prisoners in Louisiana were made to bark like dogs for food, new lawsuit claims

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North America Mental health United States

Reports to the Advocacy Center said that disabled people who are incarcerated at David Wade Correctional Center have been beaten, slapped, kicked, stripped of their clothing in the winter and sprayed with mace and bleach. One report to the center said that disabled inmates were made to bark like do…

Source: Mic

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July 21, 2017

North Dakota’s Norway experiment

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United States

Late one night in October 2015, North Dakota prisons chief Leann Bertsch met Karianne Jackson, one of her deputies, for a drink in a hotel bar in Oslo, Norway. They had just spent an exhausting day touring Halden, the maximum-security facility Time has dubbed “the world’s most humane prison,” yet n…

Source: Mother Jones

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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.

Source: The New York Times

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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…

Source: The Marshall Project

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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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Source: El dia

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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.

Source: Penalreform

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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…

Source: The Marshall Project

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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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Source: Gestión

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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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Source: El espectador

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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…

Source: The Marshall Project

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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.

Source: Africa Check

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July 18, 2017

France : Qui veut gagner des prisons ?

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Europe France

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Source: France Info

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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…

Source: Le Point

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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.

Source: Penal Reform International

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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.”

Source: The New York Times

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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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Source: Le Monde

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July 15, 2017

Réinsertion : l'enfer de la sortie de prison

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Source: Marianne

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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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Source: Cambiodigital

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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…

Source: New York Times

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July 14, 2017

Suisse : "Mes 10 000 jours en prison"

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Europe Switzerland

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Source: Marianne

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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.

Source: The Straits Times

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