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France: dans les prisons, le défi de la prise en charge des détenus radicalisés
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Smell — 11/12
Each month, the photographer Bertrand Gaudillère creates an image or chooses one from his archives. Prison Insider sends it to a dozen participants, prisoners around the world.They are in Argentina, in the United States of America, in France, in Switzerland, in Guatemala, in Ukraine, in Colombia, i…France : faim, manque d’hygiène et chantage, le calvaire des pauvres en prison
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Jamaica: helping move mentally ill out of prison not an issue
“Resources and funding” have been identified by Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton as the hurdles that his ministry would need to clear in order to find suitable spaces so that mentally ill prisoners can be removed from correctional facilities. A recommendation for “some place other…
Argentina: crisis carcelaria. Una olla a presión que siempre está a punto de explotar
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Argentina: ajustan con una prueba el protocolo para que vuelvan las visitas familiares a los presos
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Tailandia: deben retirarse los cargos injustificados y poner en libertad a personas que se manifestaron pacíficamente
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Bielorrusia: mas autoridades impulsan actuaciones penales masivas contra cientos de manifestantes pacíficos
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France: en pleine crise sanitaire, le ministre de la Justice s’inquiète de la remontée de la population carcérale
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France: l’indignité des conditions de détention provisoire comme motif de mise en liberté
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United Kingdom: speed up video calls rollout in prison to ease families’ lockdown anguish
The rollout of secure video calls in prisons should be speeded up to ease the distress of families and their loved ones unable to see each other since the cancellation of social visits, a new briefing by the Prison Reform Trust (PRT) suggests. Based on 278 contributions from families and prisoners…
France : une autre prison est possible
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Turkey: 60 percent of jailed youth return to prison after being released
Recidivism is high among youth criminals in Turkey as more than half of released minors eventually end up back in prison due to a lack of opportunities and support structures upon their release, said the Youth Re-autonomy Foundation of Turkey (TÇYÖV).France: "il y avait 33 clusters en prison au 15 octobre" contre "trois en juin", s’inquiète la nouvelle Contrôleuse générale des prisons
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Argentina: ¿constitucional o no?
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Egipto: cientos de legisladores y legisladoras de la UE y EE. UU. instan al presidente Abdel Fattah al Sisi a que excarcele a presos y presas de conciencia en Egipto
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Arabia Saudí: el Women20 debe exigir la liberación de las activistas saudíes encarceladas
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