Opinion
Rehumanising pretrial justice
Analysis
Opinion
Africa
North America
Pre-trial detention
Europe
Access to legal rights
ICPR and Prison Insider asked several experts worldwide to share their insights in the framework of the project ‘Understanding and reducing the use of imprisonment in 10 countries’. Jago Russell focuses on the impact of pretrial defence
India: remote hearings and the rights of accused persons
Analysis
Opinion
Coronavirus
Asia
Access to legal rights
India
ICPR and Prison Insider asked several experts worldwide to share their insights in the framework of the project ‘Understanding and reducing the use of imprisonment in 10 countries’. Madhurima Dhanuka discusses the impact of remote hearings on fair trials.
Kenya: finding Kafka in the criminal justice system
Analysis
Opinion
Africa
Pre-trial detention
Access to legal rights
Justice
Kenya
ICPR and Prison Insider asked several experts worldwide to share their insights in the framework of the project ‘Understanding and reducing the use of imprisonment in 10 countries’. Gilbert M. Omware, Defence lawyer and criminal justice researcher, discusses the injustices faced by vulnerable group…
France: Inequality of life during an epidemic
Analysis
Opinion
Coronavirus
Women
Europe
Minors
Foreign prisoners
Health
Overcrowding
France
Those imprisoned or detained are in forced confinement, states Didier Fassin. He has published a forum on the Liberation website. He questions whether the “sense of responsibility and solidarity” advocated by Emmanuel Macron stops at the doors of prisons and overcrowded detention centres.
USA: reading comes at a cost
Insights
Opinion
Culture
North America
Justice
Activities
Alternatives
Rehabilitation
United States
At the age of seventeen, Chris Wilson is sentenced to life without parole. In prison, he formulates what he calls a “master plan”. The document sets his project for self-improvement and draws the way to changing his life. He serves 16 years before being freed. And reading books was a great deal.
Death penalty
Violence
20,000 inmates are currently subject, or condemned to the death penalty.
Italy: a government plan for harsher prison conditions
Analysis
Opinion
Europe
Mental health
Italy
Only vendetta and no justice in the Five Star Movement - Lega’s governing contract for Italy
#VotoPreso - A party where prisoners are not invited
Analysis
Opinion
South America
Access to legal rights
Justice
Chile
Chileans are preparing to vote for the second round of the 2017 presidential elections this coming December 17. Country with one of the highest incarceration rates in Latin America, the vote of its prison population can weigh heavily in an election that is likely to be tight.
When murder occurs in the name of justice
Analysis
Opinion
Middle East
Justice
Death penalty
Seven death sentences are pronounced, in the first two months of 2017, in Palestine.
The Human Rights and Democracy Media Centers SHAMS published, in January 2017, a report on the use of death penalty in Palestine during 2016. The Palestinian National Authority (PNA), lead by the Hamas, issued 21 d…