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.
United States: the expensive burden of parole, probation unjustly places people in a second prison
When President Donald Trump commuted Alice Marie Johnson’s life sentence in 2018, many observers assumed that the grandmother was fully free. What they didn’t realize at the time was that Johnson, who was convicted of a first-time, nonviolent drug offense, still wore the “invisible shackle” of prob…United States: can Kentucky keep charging prisoners for their jail stay if they are found not guilty?
Kentucky State law allows county jails to charge prisoners a daily fee during their stay while fighting their case. But what happens when the person is found not guilty of the charges and gets released? According to a February 14, 2020 ruling by the Kentucky Court of Appeals, even if the state thro…USA: après des SOS lancés par des détenus, une prison recouvre les fenêtres
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USA: many deaths at New York state prisons are preventable, review finds
A state prisoner who’d been losing a dramatic amount of weight began to vomit uncontrollably, and was repeatedly given Ibuprofen that made her internal bleeding worse before she died. Another person behind bars waited nearly an hour for a nurse to call an ambulance after he collapsed and had a seiz…USA: massive COVID-19 outbreak at a southern NM prison hits just one type of inmates — sex offenders. That’s by design.
As the coronavirus established a foothold in southern New Mexico’s Otero County Prison Facility in mid-May, state officials quietly moved 39 inmates out of the massive complex near the Texas border to another prison near Santa Fe. The inmates shared something in common: None was a sex offender. In…USA: abogados, “es probable que haya más contagiados en cárceles”
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USA: los ayuntamientos gastan lo mismo en Policía y cárceles que en sanidad y hospitales
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USA: après 17 ans d’interruption, les exécutions fédérales reprennent
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USA: les spectaculaires progrès de New York contre l’incarcération massive des Noirs
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USA: after Louisiana women's prison flooded in 2016, temporary dorms inundated with coronavirus
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…USA: solitary confinement is fueling New York's prison suicide crisis
On average, someone attempts suicide in one of New York State’s prisons every other day. And 43 percent of those suicide attempts occur in the state’s notorious solitary confinement units — the Special Housing Unit, or SHUs. Solitary confinement is also linked to higher rates of death by suicide, a…