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Chile: ordenan mejoras en la cárcel de Valdivia

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South America Health Material conditions Overcrowding Chile

This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: Spanish

Source: Diario futrono

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France: la galère des familles de détenus après la suppression d’un arrêt de bus desservant la prison de Fleury-Mérogis

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Women Europe Foreign prisoners Material conditions Social ties France

This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: French

Source: Le Monde

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France: en 2019, près de 54 000 étrangers sans titre de séjour ont été enfermés

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Coronavirus Pre-trial detention Europe Foreign prisoners Justice France

This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: French

Source: Le Monde

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United States: nearly 1,000 inmates, more than 200 staff in Wisconsin prisons have tested positive for coronavirus

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Coronavirus North America Health United States
After nearly flattening for about three months, positive coronavirus tests in Wisconsin prisons are back on the rise at rates worse than ever. More than 600 inmates in state-run prisons tested positive for coronavirus in the past month, bringing the total to 953 since the beginning of the pandemic.…

Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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Australia: prisoner advocates call for abolition of 'discriminatory' voting restrictions as inmates prepare to cast vote in state election for the first time

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Coronavirus Pre-trial detention Oceania Access to legal rights Health Material conditions Overcrowding Rehabilitation Australia
For the first time in Queensland’s history, thousands of inmates in correctional centres across the state will be given the right to vote in the upcoming october state election.

Source: ABC

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Lebanon: the largest prison grapples with alarming covid-19 outbreak

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Coronavirus Middle East Health Material conditions Overcrowding Lebanon
Lebanon’s largest prison on Thursday was grappling with an alarming coronavirus outbreak, as many inmates refused to take preventative measures or get tested under the impression that catching the virus could speed up their release as part of a rumored general amnesty, the head of the country’s doc…

Source: Daily Sabah

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Liban: plus de 200 cas de covid-19 dans la principale prison du pays

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Coronavirus Middle East Health Material conditions Overcrowding Lebanon

This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: French

Source: 7 sur 7

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Ouganda: vaste chasse à l'homme pour retrouver 200 prisonniers échappés

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Africa Coronavirus Health Protest Uganda

This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: French

Source: La Libre Afrique

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Estados Unidos: informes profundamente alarmantes sobre esterilización forzosa de mujeres detenidas por el ICE

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This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: Spanish

Source: Amnistía internacional

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Turquie: l’écrivain Ahmet Altan entame sa cinquième année en prison en Turquie

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Culture Europe Long-term prisoners Access to legal rights Justice Turkey

This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: French

Source: Le Monde

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Liban : le documentaire qui met le pays face à lui-même

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Culture Middle East Mental health Lebanon

This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: French

Source: Franceinfo

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Venezuela: deaths inside prisons doubled during pandemic

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Inmate deaths have doubled in Venezuela’s jails during the coronavirus pandemic, a crisis that underscores how the country’s anarchic prisons foment violence and spread disease. Between March and August of 2020, 287 prisoners died in prisons and police holding cells, a jump from the 137 during the…

Source: InSight Crime

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France : suicides en prison

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Europe Mental health Suicide Social ties Religion France

This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: French

Source: La Vie

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Biélorussie : les protestataires libérés racontent les tortures en prison

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Europe Torture Violence Belarus

This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: French

Source: Libération

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France: Eric Dupond-Moretti annonce un budget 2021 "exceptionnel" pour la justice

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Europe Justice France

This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: French

Source: Franceinfo

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Nicaragua: mujeres trans hablan desde las prisiones durante la COVID-19

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Central America and the Caribbean Women LGBTQI Access to legal rights Justice Health Material conditions Nicaragua

This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: Spanish

Source: Amnistía Internacional

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México: las otras pandemias en las cárceles

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Coronavirus Central America and the Caribbean Health Mental health Material conditions Overcrowding Mexico

This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: Spanish

Source: La UAMC

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El Salvador: "son criminales y no están con este gobierno"

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Central America and the Caribbean El Salvador

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Source: BBC

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España: el gobierno vasco urge a "adaptar la política penitenciaria a la realidad actual"

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Europe Justice Health Mental health Spain

This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: Spanish

Source: Eitb.eus

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United States: the expensive burden of parole, probation unjustly places people in a second prison

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North America Justice United States
When President Donald Trump commuted Alice Marie Johnson’s life sentence in 2018, many observers assumed that the grandmother was fully free. What they didn’t realize at the time was that Johnson, who was convicted of a first-time, nonviolent drug offense, still wore the “invisible shackle” of prob…

Source: USA today

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