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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.
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Estados Unidos: informes profundamente alarmantes sobre esterilización forzosa de mujeres detenidas por el ICE
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Turquie: l’écrivain Ahmet Altan entame sa cinquième année en prison en Turquie
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Liban : le documentaire qui met le pays face à lui-même
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Kenya: the dehumanisation and exploitation of inmates in state prisons
Kenyan prisons today carry the DNA of their forebears – the colonial prisons and Mau Mau detention camps. They are about brutalising prisoners into submission and scaring the rest of society into compliance with the state. And like their colonial predecessors, they are also sites of forced labour.Venezuela: deaths inside prisons doubled during pandemic
Inmate deaths have doubled in Venezuela’s jails during the coronavirus pandemic, a crisis that underscores how the country’s anarchic prisons foment violence and spread disease. Between March and August of 2020, 287 prisoners died in prisons and police holding cells, a jump from the 137 during the…![actu_europe.png](/assets/f345x246-q80-p1/3817dc2d/actu_europe.png)
France : suicides en prison
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Biélorussie : les protestataires libérés racontent les tortures en prison
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France: Eric Dupond-Moretti annonce un budget 2021 "exceptionnel" pour la justice
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Nicaragua: mujeres trans hablan desde las prisiones durante la COVID-19
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México: las otras pandemias en las cárceles
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El Salvador: "son criminales y no están con este gobierno"
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España: el gobierno vasco urge a "adaptar la política penitenciaria a la realidad actual"
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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…![actu_europe.png](/assets/f345x246-q80-p1/3817dc2d/actu_europe.png)
France : à quand un nouveau contrôleur général des lieux de privation de liberté ?
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