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February 22, 2017

Algérie : 17 nouvelles prisons

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Africa Algeria

Le Directeur général de l’Administration pénitentiaire et de réinsertion, Mokhtar Felioune, a annoncé mardi à Blida l’entrée en fonction en 2017 de 17 établissements pénitentiaires en remplacement de ceux créés avant 1962.

February 22, 2017

Uzbek dissident released after 18 years in prison

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Asia Uzbekistan

Uzbek dissident Muhammad Bekjanov, one of the world’s longest-jailed journalists, was released from prison on Wednesday after serving 18 years in prison, his relatives and a local rights group said. Bekjanov, 63, a former editor of the opposition newspaper Erk, was sentenced to 15 years in prison i…

February 22, 2017

UK prisons 'holding child inmates in solitary confinement against UN torture rules'

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Discipline Torture United Kingdom

Investigation exposes serious allegations of international human rights breaches at young offenders institutions in the UK. British prisons are holding child inmates in solitary confinement in an alleged breach of UN torture rules and British law, The Independent has found. Lawyers in one case have…

February 22, 2017

Prisoner’s death sparks tension at Malawi’s maximum prison

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Africa Malawi

Tensions are running high in the Malawi’s maximum prison facility in Zomba at the moment after the death of a prison inmate Elisa Mato who was reportedly beaten to death by warders.

February 21, 2017

Grande-Bretagne : une prison privatisée confiée à Sodexo fait scandale

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United Kingdom

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February 21, 2017

Fleury-Mérogis: la surpopulation s’aggrave dans la plus grande prison d’Europe

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Europe Overcrowding France

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February 21, 2017

De sas en sas : une journée particulière en prison

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Culture France

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February 20, 2017

Australia: NSW government to 'rapid-build' jails

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Oceania Facilities Australia

With NSW prisons bursting at the seams, the state government will “rapid-build” a 400-inmate high-security jail at the Wellington Correctional Centre, with the facility to open later this year.

February 20, 2017

Haiti : 'this is hell'. Inside Haitian jail where prisoners starve to death and defecate on floors of overcrowded cells

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Central America and the Caribbean Overcrowding Haiti

Dozens of emaciated men with sunken cheeks and protruding ribs lie silently in an infirmary at Haiti’s largest prison, most too weak to stand. The corpse of an inmate who died miserably of malnutrition is shrouded beneath a plastic tarp.

February 20, 2017

Chad : N’Djamena, la Maison d’arrêt est engorgée

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Africa Chad

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February 20, 2017

Singapore: families of death row inmates need longer notice of execution

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Asia Death penalty Singapore

Singapore has prided itself on its reputation for being tough on crime. Under our criminal justice system, the harshest and most final punishment meted out to an individual is the death penalty.

February 20, 2017

Shaken - Tonia Miller's story

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Women United States

Eighteen-year-old Tonia Miller was accused of shaking her baby to death. Listen to Life of the Law’s episode.

February 19, 2017

Jamaica: plea for the unfit - proposal to transfer the mentally ill from prisons

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Mental health Jamaica

Persons held in Jamaica’s prisons who have been deemed ‘unfit to plead’ could be moved into a more fitting environment if the Government accepts the recommendations of the Mental Health and Homelessness Task Force, established by Minister of Health Dr Christopher Tufton.

February 19, 2017

France : des urnes dans les prisons ?

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Europe France

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February 19, 2017

Mexico: after drug war contracting boom, Mexican prisons stand idle

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Central America and the Caribbean Drugs Mexico

Guards at one of Mexico’s high-security prisons have to worry much more about criminals breaking in than busting out. Despite a price tag of more than 2 billion pesos ($98 million), the Papantla prison built for about 2,000 men in the eastern state of Veracruz does not have a single inmate, and onl…

February 18, 2017

Pakistan: flawed justice system: 10% of death row convicts children

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Asia Pakistan

Around 10 per cent of Pakistan’s death row convicts are feared to be juvenile offenders, who have been sentenced to death in a clear violation of the Juvenile Justice System Ordinance, 2000 (JJSO) and the international obligations.

February 18, 2017

Brazil court rules to compensate prisoner for overcrowding

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Overcrowding Brazil

The case could open up a wave of other claims, which some judges argue could financially cripple the state.

February 17, 2017

Pinar Selek : "La Turquie passe par un tunnel d'horreur"

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Europe Turkey

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February 17, 2017

France : [Décryptage] Prisons d'Outre-mer : l'enfer derrière les barreaux

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Europe France

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February 16, 2017

New Brazilian prison riots leave 26 dead

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Protest Brazil

Twenty-six inmates were killed in eruptions of violence inside two prisons in northern Brazil, officials said Sunday as they quelled the latest in a string of jail disturbances across the country in which more than 100 people died within two weeks.

February 16, 2017

Sri Lanka: report on minimizing congestion in prisons and prison reforms to be presented in parliament

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Sri Lanka

The first report of the inter-institutional task force appointed to identify judicial and legal reasons for minimizing congestion in prisons and prison reforms will be presented in parliament.

February 15, 2017

Cameroun : à la prison de Yaoundé, les chanceux dorment assis, les autres debout

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Africa Cameroon

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February 15, 2017

Thailand: behind the wall, a look at conditions in Thailand’s prisons after the coup

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Asia Justice Thailand

Thailand’s prison population has steadily increased over the years and the country has the dubious distinction of having the largest prison population and the highest incarceration rate among Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states.

February 15, 2017

New Zealand: secure unit for high-risk offenders opened

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Facilities New Zealand

Corrections Minister Louise Upston today opened a new residential facility at Christchurch Men’s Prison that will accommodate high-risk sexual or violent offenders subject to Public Protection Orders.