Information, topic by topic, on prisons across the world

September 15, 2019

Turkey: l'écrivain turc Ahmet Altan, en prison depuis 2016, reverra-t-il le monde ?

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Europe Turkey

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September 13, 2019

Finland: prison authorities suspect personnel of smuggling contraband to inmates

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Europe Finland

Some prison officers are said to be afraid to work in cell blocks controlled by the United Brotherhood criminal gang.

September 12, 2019

Poland: HFHR helps 80-year-old prisoner in European court case

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Europe Poland

Prison populations are ageing but facilities and care are not keeping up with the change. HFHR has submitted an amicus curiae brief to the ECtHR in the case of an 80 year-old woman who claimed her rights were violated while in detention

September 12, 2019

France : comment Belloubet veut faire changer la pratique des juges

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Europe France

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September 11, 2019

France : entre le Genepi et l'administration pénitentiaire, la rupture est consommée

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Europe France

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September 10, 2019

Hearing — 4/12

Inside Outside

North America South America Women Asia Europe Long-term prisoners

Each month, the photographer Bertrand Gaudillère creates an image or chooses one from his archives. Prison Insider sends it to a dozen participants, prisoners around the world.They are in Argentina, in the United States of America, in France, in Switzerland, in Guatemala, in Ukraine, in Colombia, i…

September 10, 2019

France : Walid, du "trou noir" de l’enfance à la réinsertion

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Europe France

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September 10, 2019

France : justice, une réforme en mode mineur

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Europe France

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September 9, 2019

Belgium : la première étude belge sur la surpopulation des prisons est menée à Lantin

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Europe Overcrowding Belgium

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September 7, 2019

Ireland: ex-Dundee United player raises the bar helping inmates in Dublin prison project

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Europe United Kingdom

Leaving Mountjoy, Allardice stops to comment on a garden the prisoners tend. He said if people on the outside knew what went on beyond the negative headlines they would think twice.

September 6, 2019

Turkey: doble castigo para los presos LGTBI

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Europe Turkey

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September 6, 2019

France : les détenus condamnés pour terrorisme peuvent demander un aménagement de peine

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Europe Access to legal rights Justice France

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September 5, 2019

UK: with parents in prison, kids at risk for lasting psychiatric problems

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Europe Mental health United Kingdom

Children who have a parent in prison may be more than twice as likely as other kids to have depression, attention problems and conduct disorders by the time they reach adolescence, a U.S. study suggests.

September 5, 2019

Finland: new women's prison to let inmates cook, use internet

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Women Europe Finland

The aim is to prevent former inmates from reincarceration by helping them adjust to life outside prison.

September 5, 2019

Germany: los 'menús de pena' que se sirven en las cárceles

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Europe Germany

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September 4, 2019

France: à Fleury-Mérogis, huit détenus formés pour empêcher les suicides en prison

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Europe Suicide France

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September 4, 2019

Turkey: fourteen inmates died due to epidemic in İzmir prison

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Europe Turkey

MP Sertel has submitted a parliamentary question regarding the claims that fourteen inmates died in eight months in an overcrowded prison for seriously ill people.

August 29, 2019

UK: forecast fall in prison numbers not "green light" for government justice reforms

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Europe United Kingdom

A projected drop in the prison population is “no justification” for an “unevidenced ‘tough on crime’ policy” from the Government, campaigners have said. The comments came as the number of people behind bars was forecast to drop in the next five years.

August 29, 2019

UK: Portland prison had 'unbearable smell of dead rats'

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Europe United Kingdom

The smell of dead rats made working conditions at a prison “unbearable”, a report has said.

August 27, 2019

Russie : la CEDH condamne lourdement la Russie dans l’affaire Magnitski

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Asia Europe Russia

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August 25, 2019

Russia: 'Black Hole', prosecutors probing allegations of punitive psychiatric treatment in Siberian prison

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Asia Europe Mental health Russia

Igor Sovchuk, a prisoner at prison IK-6 in the city of Tyumen, Siberia, complained repeatedly of a headache. After being told repeatedly to shut up, the guards finally agreed to take him to the medical unit. He was given an injection and sent back to his cell.

August 24, 2019

France: une vie entre les murs, le défi des longues peines de prison

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Europe Long-term prisoners France

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August 23, 2019

Switzerland: nursing home behind prison bars

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Europe Switzerland

Wheelchairs, articulated beds, grab rails for showers and toilets: the infrastructure of the “60-plus” unit at the high-security prison in Lenzburg, north-western Switzerland, reveals the presence of older people behind bars.

August 23, 2019

Switzerland: dying in dignity behind bars

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Europe Switzerland

Swiss prisons were designed for 20-to-30-year-old offenders who are released after serving their sentences. However, the number of older inmates is steadily increasing.