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May 4, 2016

Madagascar : prison officials left red-faced after mass jail breakout

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Africa Madagascar

Antananarivo - 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 3, 2016

Bénin : les détenus de la prison civile d’Abomey exigent le respect de leurs droits constitutionnels.

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Africa Material conditions Protest Benin

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May 2, 2016

France : activités en prison, le désoeuvrement

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Europe France

Faute de politique réfléchie et harmonisée, faute de moyens, la peine de prison reste sans contenu. Le doublement des crédits alloués aux activités dans le cadre du plan de lutte contre le terrorisme permettra-t-il de rebattre les cartes ? Pas tant que ces activités ne seront pas pensées de manière…

April 29, 2016

The forgotten child prisoners of Sierra Leone

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Africa Sierra Leone

Child inmates are left to languish in prison with no visitors or legal assistance as many wait years for a trial. Sorie’s last day of freedom was a few weeks before his 14th birthday, when the well-to-do father of a girl he liked got word that his daughter had been hanging around with a street boy.

April 27, 2016

Uganda : government launches handbook to protect juveniles

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Africa Uganda

The Government of Uganda and UNICEF on Wednesday launched a child-friendly justice handbook to guide prosecutors and other actors in the criminal justice system, in handling child-related cases in a child-friendly and gender responsive manner. The handbook is produced by the Directorate of Public P…

April 27, 2016

Morocco and Western Sahara: authorities attribute prison crowding to pretrial detentions

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Overcrowding Morocco

Mustafa Ramid, the Moroccan minister of justice and liberties confirmed the continued overcrowding of the kingdom’s prisons and attributed the phenomenon to the now-common practice of pretrial detention and the delayed start of cases involving the prematurely arrested detainees.

April 26, 2016

Au Sénégal, les prisonniers vendent leur art sur Internet

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Africa Senegal

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April 25, 2016

Uganda : prisons use sports to encourage team spirit

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Africa Uganda

At the Murchison Bay prison, a section of the Luzira prison complex, those involved are mostly aged between 22 and 35. Louis Majwala is an inmate who heads the sports department. “We are confined in one place and we need ways to release stress, sports is one of them. There are many guys who are tal…

April 22, 2016

Les conditions inhumaines des prisons tunisiennes

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Africa Material conditions Tunisia

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April 17, 2016

New Zealand : 85 prisoners have died while serving prison sentences

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New Zealand

A total of 85 prisoners died while serving a prison sentence in New Zealand since 2010, while at least 100 others had their lives saved by staff.

April 15, 2016

Burkina Faso prison guards protest for better condition

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Africa Material conditions Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso’s security staff in detention centre started Thursday nationwide unlimited strike to demand better working and living conditions, Xinhua reporter witnessed on the spot.

April 15, 2016

Europe : conditions in some prisons ‘alarming’

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Europe Material conditions Overcrowding

Myykola Gnatovskyy, President of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) : “I can say that in several countries, we have seen conditions where persons would not have sufficient living space in a cell, or even had to share beds with other prisoners – something that is very alarmin…

April 15, 2016

France : suicides and meds blight French prisons

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Europe Health Suicide France

Suicide rates in French prisons are almost double the European average. The latest data from the Council of Europe, in a report published in December 2015, shows that the rate in France was 12.4 suicides per 10,000 inmates in 2013. The median rate across the European Union was 5.4 suicides per 10,0…

April 14, 2016

Italy : despite prison reforms, system is in crisis

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Italy

Bollate, a prison near Milan, is unlike any other : it is a model jail that attracts visitors from all over Europe, keen to learn from its policies of rehabilitation and reinsertion into active life. It has workshops, and even stables. But it is the only one of its kind in Italy. The national situa…

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April 13, 2016

Life imprisonment

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Long-term prisoners

IN 1981, at the height of the debate on the abolition of the death penalty in France, philosopher Michel Foucault had this warning: “The real divide between criminal justice systems is not between those that include the death penalty and the others; it is between those that allow irreversible sente…

April 13, 2016

Panama : inside Panama's La Joya prison

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Central America and the Caribbean Panama

As Panama reels from outrage at legal loopholes that help the world’s wealthy hide their cash, inmates at the capital’s La Joya prison are paying a heavy price for flaws elsewhere in the Central American nation’s justice system.

April 12, 2016

Romania : 100,000 € to 18 inmates because of overcrowded prisons

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Overcrowding Romania

Romania will have to pay close to EUR 100,000 compensations to 18 convicted inmates who have served prison sentences or are currently incarcerated because of the poor detention conditions in local prisons, following a decision by the European Court of Human Rights – ECHR in Strasbourg.

April 8, 2016

Cameroun : près de 70 prisons sans infirmerie

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Africa Cameroon

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April 7, 2016

Inside Croatia’s only prison for women : the anatomy of absence

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Women Europe Croatia

Marina Paulenka’s The Other Home is an ode to Požega Penitentiary; Croatia’s only women’s prison. The Zagreb-based photographer discusses a project that seeks to question “the notions of freedom inside and outside supervisory institution’s architecture.”

April 6, 2016

Etats-Unis : les prisonniers séropositifs privés de soins en Louisiane

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Health United States

Human Right Watch (HRW) a reccueilli les témoignages d’anciens détenus précedemment incarcérés dans des prisons de la Louisiane (sud des États-Unis), sur la dangereuse absence de soins en matière de VIH. HRW a publié à ce sujet un rapport émettant plusieurs recommandations afin de réformer ce systè…

April 5, 2016

France : inadequate mental health care in prisons

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Europe Health Mental health France

Detention Conditions, Lack of Treatment Increase Suffering — Thousands of men and women with psychosocial disabilities in French prisons are at risk of suicide or harming themselves because of the neglect of their physical and mental health, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.

April 4, 2016

Haïti : 4 096 détenus provisoires dans la promiscuité en attente d’être jugés

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Central America and the Caribbean Pre-trial detention Overcrowding Haiti

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April 1, 2016

Côte d'Ivoire : la prison d’Abidjan, laboratoire de la lutte contre le VIH-sida

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Africa Health Côte d’Ivoire

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March 30, 2016

Cambodia : experts wary as Kingdom mulls private prison plan

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Asia Cambodia

As Cambodia moves towards opening its first privately run prison, international experts have warned the government may have misunderstood the concept and cautioned that privatisation likely isn’t the best way to tackle chronic overcrowding in prisons