Information, topic by topic, on prisons across the world

March 31, 2017

Cameroun : la prison de Maroua étouffe

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Africa Cameroon

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March 27, 2017

Chad : conditions de vie précaires des détenus, le budget de la nourriture détourné

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Africa Material conditions Chad

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March 27, 2017

Tchad : évasion spectaculaire à Abéché, 95 détenus s'échappent d'une prison

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Africa Protest Chad

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March 25, 2017

RDC : à Kasumbalesa, conditions de vie difficiles à la prison centrale

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Africa Material conditions Congo - Kinshasa

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March 24, 2017

RDC : à Goma, 174 détenus libérés de la prison de Munzenze

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Africa Congo - Kinshasa

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March 21, 2017

Mali : projet de centre pénitentiaire agricole à Koulikoro, le CICR soutient les détenus

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Africa Mali

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March 16, 2017

Sierra Leone: justice for women who kill

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Africa Women Sierra Leone

Aminata* was only 17 years old when she was arrested for killing her former boyfriend eight years ago. She was sentenced to death for murder in November 2010 and feared each day she would be executed before her sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by the government on Sierra Leone’s 50th Inde…

March 14, 2017

Odon Vallet : "dans les prisons du Bénin, il doit y avoir des livres sur un islam ouvert, car le risque de radicalisation est réel"

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Africa Health Material conditions Benin

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March 12, 2017

Nigeria prisons have 68,259 inmates

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Africa Nigeria

The Nigerian Prison Service (NPS) has disclosed that over 68,000 inmates are being held in prison facilities through the country as at March 2017.

March 9, 2017

Tunisie : Houssem, le philosophe emprisonné pour un joint raconte la prison

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Africa Tunisia

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March 4, 2017

Dozens freed from Gambia's overcrowded jails

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Africa Overcrowding Gambia

Almost 100 prisoners including rapists and robbers have been freed from Gambian jails as the new government struggles to reform an overcrowded system that long relied on strict mandatory sentencing.

February 24, 2017

Kenya: location determines how the law treats you, audit finds

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Africa Kenya

Where you live goes a long way to determining whether you get justice or not, a new audit of the criminal justice system reveals.

February 23, 2017

Burkina Faso : MACO: Formation de 150 détenus en batiment et travaux publics

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Africa Burkina Faso

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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

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 20, 2017

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

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Africa Chad

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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

Kenya: president directs release of petty offenders

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Africa Overcrowding Kenya

President Uhuru Kenyatta has directed Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery and the Commissioner of Prisons, Gen Isaiah Osugo, to liaise with the chief justice and fast-track the release of petty offenders to decongest prisons and reduce government spending on them.

February 15, 2017

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

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Africa Cameroon

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February 14, 2017

En Éthiopie, le développement rural passe par l’emprisonnement

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Africa Ethiopia

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February 14, 2017

Bénin : la réinsertion des détenus reste une chimère

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Africa Benin

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February 14, 2017

Au Bénin, la réinsertion des détenus reste une chimère

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Africa Benin

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February 13, 2017

Côte d'Ivoire : à la prison d’Abidjan, le parcours tortueux de Yacou le Chinois

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Africa Côte d’Ivoire

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February 8, 2017

Tunisie : Reportage - Jihed, 15 ans en détention depuis 369 jours

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Africa Tunisia

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