May 24, 2016 Tunisie: Que se passe-t-il dans la prison des femmes de la Manouba? News Africa Women Tunisia This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
May 24, 2016 Tunisie : que se passe-t-il dans la prison des femmes de la Manouba? News Africa Women Tunisia This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
May 24, 2016 USA : Tennessee's new prison stops taking inmates News United States Tennessee’s newest prison has stopped taking inmates after just four months of full operation. Records obtained by The Associated Press suggest why.
May 23, 2016 Belgique : le Guide du Prisonnier 2016 est disponible News Europe Belgium Si ce guide s’adresse en priorité aux détenus, il s’adresse aussi à leurs proches et à tous ceux qui ont à faire avec le milieu de l’ombre : avocats, travailleurs sociaux, médecins, aumôniers, conseillers moraux, visiteurs, sans oublier les directeurs, agents pénitentiaires et fonctionnaires de l’…
May 18, 2016 Ukraine liquidates its State Penitentiary Service amid reform News Europe Ukraine Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers has approved the reform of the State Penitentiary Service, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
May 18, 2016 USA : mass reduction of California prison population didn’t cause rise in crime, two studies find News United States After California’s prison population reached the crisis stage of overcrowding — with some prisons at 300 percent capacity — the state in 2011 began to parole thousands of inmates to their original counties. Within 15 months, more than 27,500 inmates had been “realigned” from state prisons to county…
May 18, 2016 UK : Skype, iPads and in-cell education at heart of major prisons shakeup News United Kingdom Prisoners should be able to use iPads in their cells and stay in touch with friends and family via Skype, a major study commissioned by the justice secretary, Michael Gove, is expected to conclude.
May 17, 2016 En Tunisie, l’ombre de la torture est de retour News Africa Torture Tunisia This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
May 16, 2016 Singapore: Boo Junfeng's Singapore death penalty film stirs emotions in Cannes News Asia Violence Singapore Before he made his new film about the death penalty, Boo Junfeng sat down to tea with some of Singapore’s retired hangmen.
May 14, 2016 Argentina : inmates live with rats, bats and garbage in jails News South America Argentina “The nation’s prisons will be healthy and clean, since they are for security purposes and not to punish the convicts held in them”, the Argentine constitution says, but the fact is that inmates in those jails share their cells with rats, cockroaches and, according to some complaints, even bats.
May 12, 2016 Hongrie : les barbelés antimigrants fabriqués en prison News Europe Hungary This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
May 12, 2016 Romania : UN torture prevention experts urge Romania to tackle prison overcrowding News Overcrowding Torture Romania Romania has made progress in improving conditions of detention in the country but much remains to be done, including reducing overcrowding in prisons and other places where people are deprived of their liberty, UN experts have said.
May 11, 2016 Algérie : bientôt le lancement du bracelet électronique News Africa Alternatives Algeria Le magistrat et membre de la Commission nationale de modernisation du secteur de la Justice, Ishak Derradj, a annoncé, ce mardi, le lancement prochain du bracelet électronique comme alternative à la détention provisoire.
May 10, 2016 France : les djihadistes français de retour de Syrie passent par la prison News Europe Middle East France Contrairement aux femmes, les hommes de retour de Syrie et d’Irak passent désormais quasi systématiquement par la case prison. L’État reconnaît qu’ils n’y ont pas tous leur place, mais tarde à développer des alternatives à l’incarcération.
May 9, 2016 Belgique : l'armée envoyée en renfort dans les prisons News Europe Belgium Une grève des surveillants pénitentiaires qui s’éternise a entraîné une réaction inattendue du gouvernement de Charles Michel : depuis lundi 9 mai des militaires sont envoyés dans les prisons belges “pour garantir des missions humanitaires”.
May 8, 2016 Belgium : riot at Merksplas prison News Violence Belgium Calm returned to Merksplas prison at around 5.45am on Sunday morning, after a very busy night. The prison holds 600 prisoners. Several areas of the institution were damaged, and remain unusable. Around a hundred prisoners were transferred to others prisons, says Frank Wilrycx (Open Vls), the mayor…
May 6, 2016 Philippines : un taux d’occupation des prisons de 316 % News Asia Overcrowding Philippines *Source - Le Temps Jamais les pénitenciers de l’archipel n’ont été aussi remplis, avec un taux d’occupation de 316%. Visite de deux établissements proches de la capitale, dont l’un est le plus peuplé du pays avec 23 000 captifs.
May 5, 2016 Canada: I tried to turn my life around in prison but the government made it hard to do News North America Canada Just as I was getting my life together behind bars the Canadian government decided to get ‘tough on crime.’
May 5, 2016 Belgium : Belgian state ordered to pay compensation to inmates because of prison strike News Belgium A court has sentenced the state to pay 300 euros per day to 21 inmates.The inmates, detained in the prisons in Lantin, Huy and Paifve, were successful on Wednesday’s trial court. According to the complaining inmates, they haven’t received any minimum service since the strike by prison guards starte…
May 5, 2016 Cambodia : prisons granted more funds to develop libraries News Asia Cambodia Cambodian’s prison libraries are set to receive an extra $600,000 in funding from the French Agency for Development and literacy NGO Sipar, according to a statement released yesterday. Sipar director Hok Sothik said the extra funding will be spread out over three years and enhance 26 prison librari…
May 4, 2016 Madagascar red-faced after mass jail breakout News Africa Protest Madagascar Prison officials in Madagascar were left red-faced on Tuesday after a mass escape which left over 30 inmates on the run on the Indian Ocean island nation.
May 4, 2016 Colombia : Procuraduría evidenció crisis humanitaria en cárceles de Santander News South America Colombia This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.
May 4, 2016 Italy: govt launches jail suicide plan News Suicide Italy Justice Minister Andrea Orlando on Wednesday said launched a plan to stem prison suicides, which he called a “worrying and intolerable phenomenon”.
May 4, 2016 Syrie : troisième jour d'une mutinerie géante dans une prison du régime syrien News Middle East Protest Violence Syria Au troisième jour de la mutinerie géante qui a éclaté dans la prison de Hama, contrôlée par le régime syrien, la tension restait extrême dans et aux abords du centre de détention, dont les bâtiments sont entièrement contrôlés par les 875 détenus politiques.
