North America
United States: meeting my hero
Testimonial
Sunny Jacobs: Life Outside
Testimonial
North America
Death penalty
Social ties
Rehabilitation
Work
United States
How is life after release? Sunny Jacobs was sentenced to death and spent seventeen years in detention for a crime she did not commit. She tells Prison Insider about the many challenges one faces upon release. She now works actively towards the abolition of the death penalty.
Sunny Jacobs: Life Beyond
Testimonial
North America
Mental health
Death penalty
Religion
United States
How can you escape prison with your mind? Sunny Jacobs was sentenced to death and spent seventeen years in detention for a crime she did not commit. She tells Prison Insider how yoga, meditation and prayer helped her find freedom behind prison walls.
Sunny Jacobs: Life Inside
Testimonial
North America
Mental health
Material conditions
Death penalty
Activities
United States
What is daily life on death row like? Sunny Jacobs was sentenced to death and spent seventeen years in detention for a crime she did not commit. She tells Prison Insider about her detention conditions and the burden of complete isolation.
Mexico: Torture feeds corruption
Interview
United States: inadequate mental health treatment
Analysis
Opinion
North America
Mental health
Material conditions
Suicide
United States
How the prison system respond to the needs of mentally ill prisoners?
Mexique : La criminalisation des manifestations autochtones
News
North America
Discipline
Protest
Mexico
This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: French
Estados Unidos: Nueva York trasladará mujeres y transexuales de la peligrosa cárcel de Rikers
News
North America
Women
LGBTQI
United States
This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: Spanish
United States: addressing the structural inequalities underlying a failing prison health system
Analysis
Opinion
North America
Mental health
Drugs
Material conditions
Suicide
United States
ICPR and Prison Insider asked several experts worldwide to share their insights in the framework of the project ‘Understanding and reducing the use of imprisonment in 10 countries’. Homer Venters is a physician and epidemiologist working at the intersection of incarceration, health and human rights…
North America
Pre-trial detention
Foreign prisoners
Access to legal rights
Justice
Violence
Canada
Thousands held, systemic change needed.
United States: there’s an aging crisis in New York’s prisons and we need to solve it
Analysis
Opinion
North America
Elderly prisoners
Long-term prisoners
Access to legal rights
Health
United States
ICPR and Prison Insider asked several experts worldwide to share their insights in the framework of the project ‘Understanding and reducing the use of imprisonment in 10 countries’. Rodney Holcombe, New York State Director for Criminal Justice Reform, addresses the New York prison system and the it…
United States: surge in life sentences
Analysis
Opinion
North America
Long-term prisoners
Justice
Death penalty
United States
Ashley Nellis, Ph.D. is a Senior Research Analyst at the Washington DC-based NGO, The Sentencing Project, which has been active in the struggle to reform American law and practice on life sentences. Here, Ashley discusses America’s now commonplace use of life sentences and calls for bolder approach…
Considering penal abolitionism
Interview
North America
Europe
Discipline
Justice
Alternatives
The abolitionist movement is not well-known in France. Three texts, recently translated into French, have been assembled into one book on the subject.
North America
Access to legal rights
Justice
United States
The former journalist was convicted of killing a police officer in 1981, in a trial many say was suffused with racial bias.
Rehumanising pretrial justice
Analysis
Opinion
Africa
North America
Pre-trial detention
Europe
Access to legal rights
ICPR and Prison Insider asked several experts worldwide to share their insights in the framework of the project ‘Understanding and reducing the use of imprisonment in 10 countries’. Jago Russell focuses on the impact of pretrial defence
North America
South America
Women
Long-term prisoners
Drugs
Brazil
Brazil and the United States are amongst the countries that incarcerate the highest numbers of women. What policies and practices do these countries have in common?
Coronavirus
North America
South America
Europe
Material conditions
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons“, novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Canada : bannir les courtes peines de prison pour éviter des suicides
News
North America
Pre-trial detention
Justice
Mental health
Suicide
Alternatives
Canada
This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: French
Coronavirus
North America
Central America and the Caribbean
South America
Health
Material conditions
Protest
The Covid-19 has not stopped at prison gates. What measures are taken to guarantee the safety of all prisoners and prison staff? What are the consequences of the pandemic on the living conditions in prisons? — Update 31/12/2021
Coronavirus
North America
Access to legal rights
Health
United States
Our December survey of medical co-pay policies shows that some states are reinstating medical co-pays as COVID-19 continues to spread in prisons.