United States of America
Seen in the press
Read our selection of press reports about this country. This is a short description of prison conditions on a national scale.
USA: remembering Japanese-American incarceration during WWII
As part of its mission to bear witness to the lessons of history and to remember victims of persecution, Music of Remembrance has commissioned a new musical work about the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II by Seattle composer Christophe Chagnard.USA: a transgender inmate says she was raped in a 'discriminatory and dangerous' Colorado men's prison
A transgender inmate who is suing Colorado’s corrections agency says she was raped at a men’s prison hours after a federal judge denied her request to block the prison from keeping her in a disciplinary unit, according to court records and the woman’s attorney.USA: female incarceration reveals a cruel and broken justice system
Although boys are disproportionately represented in juvenile and criminal proceedings, girls are the fastest-growing segment of the juvenile population and are often in the system for reasons very different from boys. A groundbreaking report released in 2015 unearthed a “sexual abuse to prison pipe…