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Argentina: Coronavirus en villas y cárceles, bombas biológicas
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El Salvador : hacinamiento, crimen y virus, la historia detrás de las fotos de presos
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Argentina: cárceles limpias y sanas
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Argentina: de cárceles, escondites y secuestros, 6 novelas sobre el aislamiento
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USA: el coronavirus se ensaña con las cárceles
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Argentina: la polémique enfle autour de la sortie de prison de détenus
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Venezuela: au moins 47 morts après une mutinerie
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France: face à la menace sanitaire en prison, il faut une loi d'amnistie
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UK: le système pénitentiaire traverse une grave crise, selon le Comité européen anti-torture
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USA: inside the deadly coronavirus outbreak at Oakdale federal prison
“I just feel like we were all let down,” said one prisoner. At least 39 staff and 113 inmates have tested positive for the coronavirus, according to a staff source. Alfred Reece says the outbreak began when his teacher got sick. A former accountant serving an 8-year sentence for convictions related…
Hong Kong: protesters say they were tortured in prison
Three anti-government protesters said on Tuesday that they had been tortured and abused while detained in a Hong Kong prison, alleging they were taken to areas away from surveillance footage and beaten and slapped. Appearing via Skype and in a pre-recorded video shown at a press conference organise…Brazil: inmates protest suspension of visits
A riot broke out Saturday at a prison in the city of Manaus in Brazil’s Amazon state, as inmates protested the suspension of all visits to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The inmates at the Puraquequara facility held prison guards hostage for more than five hours before authorities brought t…
New Zealand: Auckland prisoners confined to cells for up to 29 hours at a time
Women at an Auckland prison have been routinely confined to their cells for periods of up to 29 hours at a stretch - well outside the law, which says they should get at least one hour out of their cells a day. RNZ took evidence of the lockdown hours including a recently released prisoner’s diary, t…
France: par delà les murs de la prison, la parole déconfinée
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Brazil: Covid-19 massacre imminent
Open and poorly treated wounds, food waste on the cell floor, rat faeces, little ventilation, water rationing, insects everywhere. While some inmates do not even get up from their beds, such is their weak state of health, others are stuck in wheelchairs. To wash one’s body or one’s hands or clean a…
Türkiye: a life in isolation
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) prisoners represent a minority. Their protection is not ensured at all levels and their specific needs are neglected. Hilal Basak Demirbas works at the Society in the Penal System association. She regularly exchanges letters with LGBTI prison…Estonia: Coronavirus crisis exit strategy launched in prisons
TALLINN – Estonian prisons on Wednesday launched the strategy for exiting the emergency situation resulting from the spread of coronavirus, the Ministry of Justice said. The five-day shifts of prison officials were concluded as of Wednesday and the scheduled treatment of prisoners will continue bot…
Hungary: Tight measures in a closed system
The Hungarian penitentiary institutions have become even more closed and less transparent since the COVID-19 outbreak. On 5 April 2020, a Government Decree introduced tighter measures for prisons. The Hungarian Helsinki Committee updates us on the situation.France: Nicole Belloubet, "le taux d’occupation moyen des prisons est inférieur à 100 %"
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Peru: mutinerie dans une prison, trois morts
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France: "le confinement en détention, c’est la prison dans la prison"
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