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.
The use of imprisonment around the world
The Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research led a comparative research and policy project to understand the causes and consequences of over-incarceration worldwide. They partnered with Prison Insider to shed light on aspects of prisoners’ experience before and during the COVID-19.
Uruguay: Secuestro, torturas y abusos sexuales: escándalo por el caso de un recluso que denunció las terribles vejaciones que padeció en una cárcel
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Estados Unidos: Nueva York trasladará mujeres y transexuales de la peligrosa cárcel de Rikers
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Los 6 países de América Latina y el Caribe donde la cantidad de presos duplica, triplica y hasta cuadriplica la capacidad de las cárceles
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Ecuador: Papa Francisco lamenta violencia en cárcel
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Congo kinshasa : Nord-Kivu, 17 détenus libérés de la prison centrale de Butembo
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Russie : un lanceur d’alerte dénonce un système de viols organisés en prison
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Venezuela: el desastre penitenciario de Venezuela
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India: death rate up, jails to get ‘suicide watchers’
The Punjab Prisons is training a unique squad of “suicide watchers” as a study of suicides between 2017 and 2019 found that nearly 42 per cent of the victims died by suicide within a month of incarceration. Fifteen per cent could not last even 48 hours in jail.
Libye : des crimes contre l’humanité auraient été commis dans les prisons et contre des migrants
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Ecuador: un enfrentamiento entre bandas rivales en una cárcel de Ecuador deja al menos 24 muertos
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Uruguay: escándalo por reo que denunció tortura y abuso sexual en cárcel de Montevideo
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Venezuela: reo muere de tuberculosis en cárcel
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