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USA: en Floride, des milliers d’anciens détenus pourraient retrouver leur droit de vote
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USA: cleaning supplies are so scarce at this arizona prison, detainees are using shampoo and menstrual pads, lawsuit says
The plaintiffs want an independent expert to assess whether the facility has implemented social distancing measures, testing procedures, and hygiene practices adequate enough to reasonably protect detainees from contracting COVID-19 while in custody.USA: COVID-19 takes a hidden toll behind bars
COVID-19 is spreading rapidly in U.S. jails and prisons, but testing of inmates and staff remains spotty and many confirmed cases are going unreported. The resulting lack of data has deep implications for the fight against the virus, because prison outbreaks can move easily to surrounding communiti…
France: pourquoi la crise sanitaire révèle les dysfonctionnements du “tout carcéral”
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Canada: décès d’un autre prisonnier, les proches des détenus lancent un appel à l’aide
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USA: a nation of prisons and pandemics
The United States Penitentiary Canaan holds about 1,300 people. Qwantay A. is one of them. He has been incarcerated for 16 years and will be released in 2034. He drew some parallels between the coronavirus pandemic and mass incarceration, and shared his thoughts with Prison Insider.
Colombia: siete horas de angustia en La Modelo
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Argentina: impulsan la continuidad educativa de estudiantes privados de la libertad en cárceles bonaerenses
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Argentina: ¿para qué está la cárcel?
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Spain: el coronavirus acaba con las muertes por sobredosis en las cárceles
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Paraguay: reo y su pareja, a cuarentena tras cada encuentro íntimo
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Russia: after deadly prison riot in Siberia, officials are tight-lipped as families seek information on survivors
MOSCOW – It wasn’t until two days after Russian authorities violently suppressed a riot at his prison in Siberia that Kristina Ilinova learned her husband was missing. Yevgeny Ilinov was one of 200 inmates of Corrective Colony No. 15 who mutinied on April 9 in protest of their treatment by guards a…
Honduras: cut off by coronavirus, Hondurans in packed prison suffer mental toll
LA ESPERANZA, Honduras (Reuters) - For Yerbin Estrada, the worst part of the day is when the sun begins to set. The hundreds of inmates of La Esperanza prison in central Honduras must leave its small courtyard and file back to their cramped cells. “That is when the hell really begins,” said the pow…
Thailand: student project seeks more ‘humane’ design of Bangkok prison
BANGKOK — A university is working with a prison to help tackle overcrowding and unhygienic conditions that have stalked the Thai corrections system for years. In a joint project by King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi and Thonburi Remand Prison, architecture students are asked to come u…France: retrouver la liberté pendant le confinement, "il y avait une ressemblance avec mon quotidien en prison"
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USA: Kim Kardashian est devenue une actrice-clé de la réforme carcérale
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Turkey: prisons, le pays développe "un modèle inhumain"
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Burkina Faso: douze détenus suspectés de terrorisme retrouvés morts dans leurs cellules
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Guinea: plongée dans l'enfer du camp militaire de Soronkoni
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Togo: mutinerie à la sinistre prison de Lomé
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