Analysis
An overlooked tragedy
Analysis
Europe
Suicide
Overcrowding
Violence
France
After Slovenia, our country has the highest rate of prison suicide in Europe. How can this be? There are numerous causes, but they can be examined by asking two questions: who is being punished? How are they being punished? The first one is a penal policy question; the second a prison policy one.
South America
Health
Torture
Violence
Uruguay
Prologue by Alvaro Garcé, first Parliamentary Commissioner for the Prison System
In Russia, the prisoners are dragged around
Analysis
Report
Asia
Europe
Overcrowding
Torture
Violence
Russia
6,000 km, silenced journey, utmost opacity.
#VotoPreso - A party where prisoners are not invited
Analysis
Opinion
South America
Access to legal rights
Justice
Chile
Chileans are preparing to vote for the second round of the 2017 presidential elections this coming December 17. Country with one of the highest incarceration rates in Latin America, the vote of its prison population can weigh heavily in an election that is likely to be tight.
Alarming prison conditions of political prisoners in Morocco
Analysis
Report
Africa
Health
Violence
Morocco
Sahrawi prisoners’ health put at risk
"Surviving hell" in Eastern Ukraine
Analysis
Report
Europe
Justice
Torture
Violence
Ukraine
A wide network of places of illegal detention in Donbass.
Nepal: the challenges of achieving justice
Analysis
Report
Political police torture in Caracas (Venezuela)
Analysis
Report
South America
Torture
Violence
Venezuela
Electric shocks, beatings, waterboarding, asphyxiation with chemicals… A report denounces these practices.
Annual penal statistics
Analysis
Report
When murder occurs in the name of justice
Analysis
Opinion
Middle East
Justice
Death penalty
Seven death sentences are pronounced, in the first two months of 2017, in Palestine.
The Human Rights and Democracy Media Centers SHAMS published, in January 2017, a report on the use of death penalty in Palestine during 2016. The Palestinian National Authority (PNA), lead by the Hamas, issued 21 d…
TEPSIS Papers
Analysis
Minors
Access to legal rights
Justice
Alternatives
Work
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