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November 21, 2016

China : ‘Over 2,000 Nigerians dying in Chinese prisons’

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Asia China

Man deported from China smuggles notes from Dong-guan prison. Three days after Chijioke Obioha, a 38-year-old Nigerian, was executed in Singapore for drug trafficking, The Guardian has received a prison note smuggled out of Dong-guan prison in China by a source, which gave graphic details of the pl…

November 21, 2016

Etats-Unis : Pour les plus anciens détenus américains en cellule d’isolement, le combat continue

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Discipline United States

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November 21, 2016

France : Radicalisation en prison : le gouvernement abandonne les unités spécialisées

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Europe Discipline Religion France

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November 21, 2016

France : Le journaliste Olivier Bertrand raconte ses jours « kafkaïens » de prison en Turquie

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Europe Turkey

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November 21, 2016

Israël et territoires palestiniens occupés : Israël prolonge la détention sans procès d'un journaliste palestinien

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Middle East Israel

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November 21, 2016

USA: shadow prison immigrant detention in the South

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United States

As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to deport up to 3 million people, an investigation of immigrant detention centers in the South has found that detainees are routinely denied their due process rights and frequently endure inhumane conditions in isolated facilities that have little oversight…

November 20, 2016

Children in prison - not a minor problem.

Minors Activities

At least one million children are in prison around the world, according to UNICEF. The conditions of their detention are, for the most part, deplorable.

November 19, 2016

USA : study suggests Illinois women's prison disciplines inmates too harshly

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Women Discipline Violence United States

Inmates at Illinois’ major women’s prison have been called “crazy” and “worthless” by corrections officers, are sometimes placed in an unpadded open-bar “crisis cage” and receive harsher discipline than men for similar offenses, a study released Friday says.

November 19, 2016

Liban : un concert pour les jeunes détenus illumine les murs de la prison de Roumieh

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Middle East Lebanon

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November 18, 2016

South Africa: prison torture chamber exposed on camera

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Torture South Africa

Torture and assault of prison inmates has been exposed in CCTV footage.

November 18, 2016

Turquie : "je n’ai jamais connu de période aussi désespérante pour la défense des droits humains"

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Europe Access to legal rights Turkey

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November 17, 2016

Colombia : Sigue creciendo número de personas hacinadas en estaciones de policía

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South America Colombia

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November 17, 2016

Liban : à la prison de Roumieh, la nouvelle approche de sœurs libanaises, à l’écoute des combattants

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Middle East Lebanon

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November 17, 2016

UK : Liz Truss to resume Prison Officers Association talks

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Europe United Kingdom

Justice Secretary Liz Truss will restart talks with the prison officers’ union later amid claims the service in England and Wales is “in meltdown”. On Tuesday, up to 10,000 prison officers in England and Wales stopped work over claims of a “surge in violence” among inmates.

November 17, 2016

USA : 'I can’t keep my brother out of jail, and that hurts'

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United States

Kings realized that such shared pain was no coincidence: her community had been targeted. “I knew I had a brother in jail, but I never thought about mass incarceration as systemic and how that had not just impacted me, but impacted millions of people,” King says. “Why were there drug-sniffing dogs…

November 16, 2016

France : de plus en plus de femmes radicalisées en prison

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Women Europe Discipline Religion France

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November 15, 2016

UK : prison officers end protest after court order

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United Kingdom

Prison officers have returned to work after a High Court injunction ordered them to end a 24-hour protest.Up to 10,000 prison officers in England and Wales stopped work over claims of a “surge in violence” in jails. Granting the injunction, Mr Justice Kerr said prison officers’ action had created a…

November 15, 2016

USA : in prison, but still a big sister

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United States

“I’m not going to discuss how I ended up in the criminal-justice system,” Lettisha Boyd tells me.“I did end up there—I guess that’s the biggest thing.” Boyd, now 41, was sent to a prison in New York state more than two decades ago for a felony conviction received one month before her 19th birthday.…

November 15, 2016

Why the UK prison service is in crisis, by a former inmate

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United Kingdom

The state of prisons in England and Wales isn’t something that often makes the national news agenda. In fact, it’s usually only when something has gone really badly wrong that our prison system makes the front pages. After recent riots and prisoner escapes, such as the two inmates who were on the r…

November 15, 2016

Panamá : ¿están muriendo reos enfermos?

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Central America and the Caribbean Panama

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November 14, 2016

États-Unis : 44 ans isolés en prison, Donald Trump en sortant

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United States

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November 14, 2016

USA : brothers behind bars

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United States

What happens when the only life you’ve known has been in an institution? “The only photograph I had of her, growing up, is from a scrapbook from a social worker,” Shelton McElroy says about his mother, “from a visitation that we had at a women’s prison called Pewee Valley.” Shelton and his two brot…

November 14, 2016

USA : when a sibling goes to prison

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United States

Over 5 million kids in the United States currently have or have had a parent in prison. That works out to about one in 14 American children—a majority of whom are under age 10. Broken down by state, children with incarcerated parents can represent 3 to 13 percent of the population, according to “A…

November 12, 2016

USA : where even nightmares are classified, psychiatric care at Guantánamo

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Health Mental health Violence United States

Secrecy, mistrust and the shadow of interrogation at the American prison limited doctors’ ability to treat mental illness among detainees. Dr. Rosecrans, now retired from the Navy, led one of the mental health teams assigned to care for detainees at the island prison over the past 15 years. Some pr…