Information, topic by topic, on prisons across the world

April 16, 2018

France : la prison ultrasécurisée d'Alençon prépare l'arrivée de détenus radicalisés

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Europe Discipline Facilities France

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April 16, 2018

France : "ça ressemblait à une prison", témoigne un enfant albanais, passé par un centre de rétention de Moselle

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Europe France

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April 15, 2018

France : conditions de détention des terroristes, les pratiques de Fleury-Mérogis en question

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Europe Discipline Material conditions Work France

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April 14, 2018

Russia: detainees who had rebelled against systematic torture sentenced to heavy sentences

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Asia Europe Torture Russia

At the end of a lengthy trial, 17 participants in a protest that took place in the Kopeysk penal colony (Ural Region) in November 2012 in response to systematic torture practices were sentenced to up to 5 years of prison by the Chelyabinsk Regional Court for “mass riots.”

April 12, 2018

France : à la prison de Fresnes, le pouvoir de l’argent

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Europe France

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April 9, 2018

Suisse : l'absentéisme plombe la prison de Champ-Dollon.

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Europe Switzerland

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April 9, 2018

Suisse : des prisons au rayon X

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Europe Switzerland

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April 9, 2018

France : les Français veulent des conditions de détention plus sévères pour les détenus et moins de moyens pour les prisons

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Europe Material conditions France

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April 9, 2018

France : demandes de visites en hausse et visiteurs de prison pas assez nombreux

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Europe Social ties France

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April 9, 2018

France: indignity in prison

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Europe France

Hunger strikes, violence, unsanitary conditions. Samy, incarcerated in France, tells the story of his daily life.

April 4, 2018

Türkiye: fading away

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Europe Turkey

“I am about to forget my native language” Havre comes from Iran. He has been detained in Türkiye for six years. His story is one of deprivation. Deprivation of his liberty, his family, his mother tongue.

March 29, 2018

Türkiye: prison diseases

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Europe Turkey

“*We feel as though we were buried alive here. We struggle to survive”.* Serhat is incarcerated in a prison F, in Izmir. This is the letter he wrote.

March 28, 2018

France: "la densité carcérale est passée de 114% à 117%" en un an

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Europe Overcrowding France

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March 28, 2018

Comment Casanova Agamemnon est devenu le plus ancien détenu de France

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Europe France

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March 28, 2018

France: surpopulation, réinsertion difficile...

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Europe Overcrowding France

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March 20, 2018

Turkey: more than 50,000 inmates employed in prison workshops across the country

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Europe Middle East Turkey

The number of workshops employing inmates in jails across Turkey has reached to 1,700, with more than 50,000 prisoners working under the program overseen by the Ministry of Justice.

March 20, 2018

Welcome to LTP

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Europe Health Mental health Drugs Material conditions Belarus

In Belarus, people are locked up to wean them off alcohol. These are strange places where time seems to have stopped after the fall of Soviet Union.

March 11, 2018

Suisse: liberté conditionnelle, 2% des internés en bénéficient

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Europe Switzerland

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March 8, 2018

Suisse: faits et chiffres de la libération conditionnelle

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Europe Switzerland

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March 8, 2018

Belgique: le rapport critique du Conseil de l'Europe

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Europe Belgium

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March 7, 2018

France : hausse des placements d'enfants en rétention administrative

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Europe Protest France

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March 5, 2018

France: la double peine d’un détenu infirme

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Europe France

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March 3, 2018

France: prison de Fleury-Mérogis, une crèche va ouvrir pour les enfants des femmes détenues

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Women Europe Social ties France

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February 28, 2018

France : des "conditions indignes" au CHU de Saint-Étienne

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Europe Health France

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