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December 24, 2018

United Kingdom: campaigners call for landline phones in prison cells

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Europe Social ties United Kingdom

There are calls for landline phones to be installed in prison cells in Scotland to help keep families connected.

December 23, 2018

UK: Prisons ban Christmas cards with glitter due to drugs epidemic in jails

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Europe Drugs United Kingdom

Measure in England and Wales aims to combat problem of post being sprayed with drugs.

December 20, 2018

Ukraine: little has changed

Testimonial

Europe Ukraine

Sergiy was incarcerated during four years between 2001 and 2005 in the prison of Cherkasy.For Prison Insider, he describes how a day used to be like for him.

December 20, 2018

Prisons

Portfolio

Europe Material conditions Overcrowding France

From 2011 to 2014, Grégoire Korganow went inside some 20 corrections facilities and photographed everything he saw: inside the cells, courtyard, visitation booths, showers, solitary confinement block, and more, by day and by night.

December 19, 2018

Spain: una huelga encubierta de funcionarios de prisiones pone al límite 15 cárceles

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Europe Spain

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December 17, 2018

France: lutter contre le danger de la radicalisation en prison [video]

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Europe Discipline Religion France

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December 17, 2018

Finland: on a visité une "prison ouverte"

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Europe Facilities Finland

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December 17, 2018

Russia: notorious 19th-century Moscow prison will be closed

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Asia Europe Russia

Russian prison officials have announced plans to close the infamous Butyrka prison in central Moscow and relocate its inmates to the city’s outskirts.

December 17, 2018

Ireland: vulnerable woman repeatedly assaulted upon leaving prison

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Europe Ireland

A vulnerable woman was repeatedly sexually assaulted after being released from a Belfast prison 13 times, a report has said.

December 15, 2018

United Kingdom: high levels of pepper-spray misuse found in prisons pilot scheme

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Europe United Kingdom

Prisons charity calls for halt to rollout after it finds officers routinely breached guidance.

December 15, 2018

Spain: aumentan las agresiones a los funcionarios de prisiones en Madrid

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Europe Spain

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December 14, 2018

France : Paris, la prison de la Santé prépare sa réouverture

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Europe Health Facilities France

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December 13, 2018

France: en prison, comment les détenus radicalisés sont-ils suivis à leur sortie ?

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Europe Discipline Rehabilitation France

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December 12, 2018

France: l’Enap, l’école qui forme les surveillants de prison

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Europe France

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December 11, 2018

France: en Guyane, l’unique prison en sale état

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Europe Material conditions France

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December 11, 2018

Turkey: dans l’archipel de la torture

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Europe Torture Turkey

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December 11, 2018

France: le renseignement pénitentiaire renforcé pour prévenir les évasions

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Europe Protest France

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December 10, 2018

France : les aménagements de peine : le "milieu fermé"

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Europe France

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December 9, 2018

UK: the prisons where inmates aren’t allowed a daily shower

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Europe United Kingdom

The government is “ignoring the fact that thousands of children and adult men are smelly and dirty because they cannot get a shower”.

December 9, 2018

United Kingdom: pepper spray used in non-violent situations in prison pilot

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Europe Violence United Kingdom

Pava incapacitant spray to be rolled out to all jails despite criticism during evaluation.

December 9, 2018

Russia: prison torture victim 'brought back to life four times'

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Asia Europe Torture Russia

Former inmate Yevgeny Makarov describes how guards choked him with a towel and poured water into his mouth to suffocate him.

December 7, 2018

Russia: inmates In far East launch hunger strike to protest prison conditions

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Asia Europe Material conditions Protest Violence Russia

Eight inmates in Russia’s Far Eastern Sakha-Yakutia region have launched a hunger strike to protest conditions at the prison where they are being held, the head of a regional human monitoring group says.

December 7, 2018

UK: burning blankets, blocked doors and teargassed cells in East London after violent prison protest

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Europe Violence United Kingdom

Violent inmates started fires and blocked cell doors as part of a prison protest in East London on Tuesday, leaving warders no option but to fight back, using “force” and teargas.

December 6, 2018

Belgium: trop grande, trop loin, la prison de Haren ?

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Europe Belgium

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