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USA: les spectaculaires progrès de New York contre l’incarcération massive des Noirs
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France: "J’étais directrice pénitentiaire d’insertion et de probation, j’ai démissionné. Voilà pourquoi"
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France: le logement, casse-tête des aménagements de peines de prison
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France: terrorisme, la majorité veut développer la justice préventive
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Brazil: COVID-19 breeds fear and calls for change
Carolina, a Brazilian mother, hasn’t heard anything from her jailed son since March when authorities banned prison visits due to the coronavirus outbreak and she is scared. As COVID-19 deaths rise in Brazil’s violent and overcrowded jails, activists have called for tens of thousands of prisoners to…Venezuela: al menos 1.410 reclusos han sido puestos en libertad desde el inicio de la cuarentena
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Argentina: doscientos internos de cárceles bonaerenses reciclan tecnología en desuso
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Colombia: 10 horas de terror
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Latin America: una masacre anunciada
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Taiwan: team helps Nauruan prison to make own food
A Taiwanese technical mission to the Pacific island nation of Nauru is helping a penal facility improve food self-reliance and is teaching inmates skills they can use after their release, the team said yesterday. “The project, with the goal of minimizing waste, officially started in January, with a…
Yemen: rights group says detainees face ‘slow death’ in prison
The Yemeni Abductees’ Mothers Association in the city of Aden yesterday warned that the detainees in Bir Ahmed Prison are facing a “slow death” due to ill-treatment by the prison administration. The group said in a statement that the prison administration deliberately mistreats detainees by cutting…
Cambodia: reforms to tackle prison overcrowding ‘must go further and put human rights at the core of drug policy’
At the beginning of the year, Cambodia’s largest prison facility exceeded 9,500 prisoners – which is 463% over its maximum capacity of 2,050 Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch want reforms to be deepened and made permanent, through the review and amendment of the Law on Drug Control ‘Camb…United Arab Emirates : reported Covid-19 prison outbreaks
(Beirut) – UAE prison authorities should take urgent measures to protect the mental and physical health of prisoners amid reported Covid-19 outbreaks in at least three detention facilities across the country, Human Rights Watch said today. Family members of prisoners in al-Wathba prison near Abu Dh…France: première évaluation des impacts de la crise covid sur la justice et la prison
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France: un rapport critique la gestion des détenus radicalisés
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France: Adeline Hazan, "en prison, les droits fondamentaux sont presque considérés comme un luxe"
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Canada: spiritual needs of vulnerable federal inmates unmet during pandemic: chaplains
OTTAWA – Federal prison chaplains say the spiritual needs of inmates have become an unnecessary casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic at a time when offenders are feeling particularly vulnerable and alone. The Correctional Service of Canada is allowing only emergency in-person visits from chaplains to…USA: after Louisiana women's prison flooded in 2016, temporary dorms inundated with coronavirus
In one massive room filled with rows of metal bunk beds about an arm’s length apart, 70 women share three toilets and four sinks. There’s no such thing as social distancing inside the female prison dorms that have become inundated with coronavirus cases. The high case numbers have prompted Departme…
Touch — 9/12
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…
Afghanistan: life inside Kabul's women's prison during Covid-19
Thousands of prisoners in Afghanistan have been released and pardoned as the country battles the Covid-19 pandemic. But in Kabul’s only prison facility for women, more than a hundred women, often with young children, remain behind bars. FRANCE 24 reports from Kabul. In Afghanistan’s overcrowded pri…USA: solitary confinement is fueling New York's prison suicide crisis
On average, someone attempts suicide in one of New York State’s prisons every other day. And 43 percent of those suicide attempts occur in the state’s notorious solitary confinement units — the Special Housing Unit, or SHUs. Solitary confinement is also linked to higher rates of death by suicide, a…