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Cuba: Humiliation non-stop
Jacques was arrested in February 2017 by the Cuban criminal justice system and was immediately incarcerated in a state owned highly secured prison, held incommunicado for 48 days. Her daughter became fatherless overnight. He was transferred to France in September 2019. He narrates to Prison Insider…
UK: lockdown report reveals HMP Maidstone inmates confined to cell for 23 hours a day with higher number of self-harm incidents
An inspection of a Kent prison during lockdown has revealed inmates have been confined to their cells for 23 hours a day and had no face-to-face contact with the outside world for at least 12 weeks. The report has also highlighted a “self-inflicted death” at HMP Maidstone since the restrictions cam…
USA: many deaths at New York state prisons are preventable, review finds
A state prisoner who’d been losing a dramatic amount of weight began to vomit uncontrollably, and was repeatedly given Ibuprofen that made her internal bleeding worse before she died. Another person behind bars waited nearly an hour for a nurse to call an ambulance after he collapsed and had a seiz…
Morocco: le champion mondial de la détention préventive
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Dura crítica del Defensor del Pueblo a la crueldad en las cárceles españolas
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Colombia: 285 casos de discriminación a población LGBTI en prisión en 2019
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Colombia: se disparan casos de coronavirus en cárceles de Cali, Cartagena y El Espinal
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Chile: la realidad de las cárceles en pandemia y la falta de información pública
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China: Wang Quanzhang: in prison, I was tortured to extract a confession
The human rights lawyer gives first interview since finishing his sentence in April. He spent four years in jail for “subversion against the state”. After being beaten for hours, the prison authorities forced him to sign an affidavit declaring his guilt. Wang: “Police, investigating magistrates and…USA: massive COVID-19 outbreak at a southern NM prison hits just one type of inmates — sex offenders. That’s by design.
As the coronavirus established a foothold in southern New Mexico’s Otero County Prison Facility in mid-May, state officials quietly moved 39 inmates out of the massive complex near the Texas border to another prison near Santa Fe. The inmates shared something in common: None was a sex offender. In…
France: Inequality of life during an epidemic
Those imprisoned or detained are in forced confinement, states Didier Fassin. He has published a forum on the Liberation website. He questions whether the “sense of responsibility and solidarity” advocated by Emmanuel Macron stops at the doors of prisons and overcrowded detention centres.
À Hong Kong, la nouvelle loi sécuritaire prévoit la prison à vie
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Cameroon : à Douala, déboires et espoirs des mineurs de la prison
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France: le bracelet électronique pour les ex-détenus terroristes, une mesure votée par les députés
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