Health
Europe
Health
Mental health
Suicide
France
Fresnes, Fleury-Mérogis, la Santé: for 25 years, Cyrille Canetti witnessed the shift of prison psychiatry. (Critical) interview about psychiatry and prison.
Europe
Justice
Health
Violence
Ukraine
A Ukrainian organisation defending human rights shares its concerns regarding the situation of prisoners.
Years in the Row
Analysis
Thematic paper
Africa
Women
Asia
Europe
Minors
Foreign prisoners
Discipline
Health
Mental health
Drugs
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Death penalty
Torture
Some people fear death every morning. Others are sentenced to death in countries that no longer carry out executions. At least 483 executions were documented in 2020. Prison Insider publishes an overview of practices in nine countries that have not abolished the death penalty.
Austria: Final destination, Göllersdorf
Investigations
Coronavirus
Europe
Health
Mental health
Social ties
Rehabilitation
Austria
In a tiny village in Lower Austria lies one of the country’s “special institutions for mentally abnormal, unsound offenders”. Journalist Sarah Yolanda Koss dives into the everyday life of those imprisoned in the Göllersdorfer castle.
El Salvador es responsable por la detención, condena y muerte de una mujer que sufrió una emergencia obstétrica
News
Central America and the Caribbean
Women
Health
El Salvador
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Africa
Health
Material conditions
Suicide
Overcrowding
Congo - Kinshasa
The Congolese Prison Observatory published a report in December 2019. It reported six deaths and one suicide attempt that year within this prison.
Coronavirus
Asia
Health
Material conditions
Myanmar (Burma)
Former detainee says dismal conditions led to rare protest by prisoners and lingering trauma after release.
Roland: “Great. This again.”
Testimonial
Coronavirus
Health
Facilities
Rehabilitation
France
Roland was imprisoned for a total of 28 years. Is the lockdown a second imprisonment? Prison Insider has brought out six narratives of former prisoners. Six perspectives on the lockdown and imprisonment.
Global Prison Trends 2021
Report
Africa
Coronavirus
Women
Asia
Europe
Minors
Middle East
Oceania
Health
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Death penalty
More than eleven million people are imprisoned around the world. Of this number, 70% are awaiting trial, a percentage that has been continuously increasing since 2000.
Venezuela: reo muere de tuberculosis en cárcel
News
South America
Health
Material conditions
Venezuela
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Prison Insider in 2020
Activity report
Pre-trial detention
Middle East
Access to legal rights
Health
Torture
Violence
Iraq
The United Nations accused the government of Iraq of the widespread torture of detainees held in the country’s detention centers. A U.N. report covers conditions in the centers from July 1, 2019 to April 30, 2021.
Coronavirus
Middle East
Health
Overcrowding
Iran
Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned on Tuesday of the dangerous situation faced by prisoners in Iran as the COVID-19 crisis deepens in the country, calling on authorities in the Islamic Republic to “unconditionally” release prisoners detained for peaceful dissent.
“Iran’s prison authorities should unco…
Argentina: ratas, comida podrida y heridos de “guerra”: las imágenes del abandono en las cárceles de la provincia de Buenos Aires
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South America
Health
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Torture
Violence
Argentina
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