Information, topic by topic, on prisons across the world

June 12, 2020

Latin America: una masacre anunciada

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June 11, 2020

United Arab Emirates : reported Covid-19 prison outbreaks

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(Beirut) – UAE prison authorities should take urgent measures to protect the mental and physical health of prisoners amid reported Covid-19 outbreaks in at least three detention facilities across the country, Human Rights Watch said today. Family members of prisoners in al-Wathba prison near Abu Dh…

June 11, 2020

France: première évaluation des impacts de la crise covid sur la justice et la prison

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June 10, 2020

Colombia: coronavirus hits prison population hard

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Critics say the government’s response to early warnings about the spread of COVID-19 in Colombian prisons was too little, too late.

June 10, 2020

Canada: spiritual needs of vulnerable federal inmates unmet during pandemic: chaplains

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OTTAWA – Federal prison chaplains say the spiritual needs of inmates have become an unnecessary casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic at a time when offenders are feeling particularly vulnerable and alone. The Correctional Service of Canada is allowing only emergency in-person visits from chaplains to…

June 10, 2020

USA: after Louisiana women's prison flooded in 2016, temporary dorms inundated with coronavirus

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Coronavirus North America Women United States

In one massive room filled with rows of metal bunk beds about an arm’s length apart, 70 women share three toilets and four sinks. There’s no such thing as social distancing inside the female prison dorms that have become inundated with coronavirus cases. The high case numbers have prompted Departme…

June 4, 2020

Afghanistan: life inside Kabul's women's prison during Covid-19

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Coronavirus Women Asia Afghanistan

Thousands of prisoners in Afghanistan have been released and pardoned as the country battles the Covid-19 pandemic. But in Kabul’s only prison facility for women, more than a hundred women, often with young children, remain behind bars. FRANCE 24 reports from Kabul. In Afghanistan’s overcrowded pri…

June 4, 2020

USA: what women dying in prison from COVID-19 tell us about female incarceration

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This article was originally published by The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Melissa Ann Horn’s name appeared over and over in court records and jail blotters in the rural Virginia county where she was born, and where she was arrested for c…

June 4, 2020

Australia: aboriginal people in prison and out-of-home care suffering under 'punitive' Covid-19 restrictions

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Report reveals inmates going without soap and children in out-of-home care system being refused contact with families

June 4, 2020

Mexico: “salí de una cárcel para ir a otra”, testimonio de un preso liberado por la pandemia

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June 4, 2020

Latin America: como evitar brotes de coronavirus en las cárceles

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June 4, 2020

Latin America: la desesperación en las cárceles frente al Covid-19

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June 4, 2020

Chile: la pandemia en las cárceles, riesgo de contagio de la población penal es 6 veces más alto

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June 3, 2020

Russia: le mystère de la faible propagation du coronavirus dans les prisons

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May 29, 2020

France: la Chancellerie demande aux juges de ne pas faire exécuter les peines d'incarcération de moins de six mois

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May 29, 2020

France: crise du Covid-19, une occasion historique pour les prisons

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May 28, 2020

USA: how to hide a covid-19 hotspot? Pretend prisoners don’t exist

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Coronavirus North America Health United States

A county trying to reopen its economy wrestles with a virus outbreak in prison.

May 28, 2020

USA: will the Coronavirus make us rethink mass incarceration?

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Coronavirus North America Overcrowding United States

Community groups have pointed out the social costs of the prison system for decades. Now the pandemic has exposed its public-health risks.

May 28, 2020

USA: when parole doesn’t mean release, the senseless “program requirements” keeping people behind bars during a pandemic

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Coronavirus North America Justice Health United States

Parole boards are granting parole contingent on participation in programs that are often not readily available for people behind bars, especially during the pandemic.

May 28, 2020

France: le ministère de la justice veut limiter les emballements de sortie de crise

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Coronavirus Europe Justice France

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May 28, 2020

France: la reprise des parloirs, très encadrée, laisse détenus et familles "frustrés"

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May 28, 2020

France: ce que le confinement nous a fait vivre doit nous interroger sur la prison

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May 28, 2020

Lockdown is not imprisonment!

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Finally free? Two researchers discuss the parallels between lockdown and incarceration. In their opinion, comparisons with prison are misleading.

May 27, 2020

USA: cleaning supplies are so scarce at this arizona prison, detainees are using shampoo and menstrual pads, lawsuit says

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The plaintiffs want an independent expert to assess whether the facility has implemented social distancing measures, testing procedures, and hygiene practices adequate enough to reasonably protect detainees from contracting COVID-19 while in custody.