Editorial
Prison Insider's editorial
The members of Prison Insider periodically put forth their critical points of view -- different opinions from different people are the assets of the Prison Insider team.
Liban : Dans la plus grande prison du Liban, manger devient un luxe
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Équateur : des bains de sang dans les prisons, le gouvernement impuissant
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Cameroun : l’épidémie de choléra dans les prisons inquiète l’opposition
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Iran : des détenus malades qu’on abandonne
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Salvador : des arrestations massives dans le cadre de la guerre contre les gangs
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Council of Europe anti-torture Committee visits Poland
A delegation of the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) carried out a periodic visit to Poland from 21 March to 1 April 2022. It was the Committee’s seventh periodic visit to this country.
Netherlands: walling up madness
Both in its European and overseas territories, care in prisons is administered by the Ministry of Justice. Around 60% of prisoners present with at least one mental disorder. Prisoners suffering from severe disorders have to be placed in Extra Care Facilities (Extra Zorgvoorziening, EZV) present in…
France: could do better
The French National Union for Families and Friends of People Suffering Mental Illness and/or Psychological Disability (Unafam) offers several approaches that could improve the treatment of people with mental illness who have committed offences. The European Court of Human Rights and the European Co…
Germany: walling up madness
Germany is a federal republic divided into 16 Länder. The Ministry of Justice oversees prison health care. Federal law does not provide for any mental health care in prison. The Länder implement treatment measures. Significant variations have been observed from one territory and facility to another…
Kenya: un "marais artificiel" purifie les eaux usées fétides d'une prison
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