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France: "les prisons ne remplissent pas leurs missions"
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Venezuala: Varela prohíbe a periodistas grabar y tomar fotos en las cárceles Fénix y Uribana
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Bolivia: ONU advierte corrupción generalizada en cárceles
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Argentina: Gustavo Ferrari, “Los delincuentes hoy tienen recursos de todo tipo para mantenerse libres”
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Colombia: la agencia de publicidad que opera desde la cárcel
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India: should 400,000 prisoners get to vote in the 2019 election?
India’s preparing to vote again. Some 900 million of its 1.3 billion people are expected to exercise their franchise over April and May. Amidst this massive celebration of democracy, a small but significant section of the population is still waiting to know whether it will be part of the process. T…France: durcissement du régime disciplinaire en prison
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France: le responsable des parloirs accusé d’avoir "laissé passer des colis"
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Costa Rica habilita espacios en cárceles para mejorar vida de mujeres presas
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Uruguay: cárceles “pobres” e “inhumanas”
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Peru: los derechos humanos en las cárceles
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Swaziland: up to 1,000 prisoners could be freed from jail early
As many as 1,000 prisoners in Swaziland / eSwatini could be released from jail before the end of their sentences because the government cannot afford to keep them locked up. The move follows reports that His Majesty’s Correctional Services that run jails in the kingdom could not afford to feed all…Malaysia to keep death penalty, but no longer mandatory
Malaysia has rowed back on an earlier plan to completely repeal the death penalty, saying that while the government will abolish mandatory capital punishment, it will leave it for courts to decide whether a person convicted of a serious crime will hang. The mandatory death penalty for 11 criminal o…Bolivia: cárceles, el interpelado es el estado
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UK: ‘In probation, we’re poorly paid and the caseloads are unmanageable’
Steve Brown has just completed three months on home detention curfew, having left prison at the end of November. Things are looking up. He has had his electronic tag removed and last week moved into new supported accommodation. “I’m in a good place,” he says, “but no thanks to the probation service…USA: federal prisons official used prisons labor
The Bureau of Prison’s South Central regional director utilized incarcerated people from a Texas prison to work on a landscaping project at his church. A high-ranking Federal Bureau of Prisons official used incarcerated people from a Texas prison to provide labor for his church to finish a landscap…Bolivia: comenzó el registro biométrico de 19.000 presos en cárceles
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