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Spain: primer caso confirmado de COV-19 en un centro penitenciario
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Argentina: para agilizar informes criminológicos, dotan de nueva tecnología a cárceles de La Plata, Magdalena y Florencio Varela
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France: coronavirus : les prisons inquiètes face à l'épidémie
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France: aux élections municipales, les détenus ne pourront pas voter en prison
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USA: 152 Parchman inmates sue Mississippi officials over "barbaric" prison conditions and "deprivation" of health care
Lawyers representing inmates inside the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman filed a second lawsuit in federal court early Wednesday on behalf of 152 inmates who they say have been denied adequate medical and mental health care, fed contaminated food and retaliated against for speaking with t…France: le Sénat veut renforcer la surveillance des djihadistes à leur sortie de prison
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El Salvador: la emergencia nacional en las cárceles
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Spain: machismo en el sistema penitenciario y la triple condena que sufren las mujeres en las cárceles españolas
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UK: 'our prison deradicalisation programmes aren't working'
The British prison system currently deals with high-security terrorism convicts by sending them to dispersal prisons. These prisoners are distributed around six maximum security dispersal jails and are regularly moved from one to another. This is done to prevent them from establishing close relatio…
USA: Texas bans greeting cards in prison
Every February 9, Joseph Mallonee sends his mother a handmade birthday card, with pastel hearts and roses sketched inside a Texas prison. Three weeks later, his mother returns the favor, buying a card or two from the local dollar store and mailing it to Huntsville in time for her son’s February 20…USA: el confinamiento en solitario prolongado en las cárceles equivale a tortura psicológica
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France: les détenus de la prison de Bois-d’Arcy lancent leur propre chaîne de télé
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France: assesseurs extérieurs en prison
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USA: reading comes at a cost
At the age of seventeen, Chris Wilson is sentenced to life without parole. In prison, he formulates what he calls a “master plan”. The document sets his project for self-improvement and draws the way to changing his life. He serves 16 years before being freed. And reading books was a great deal.USA: construction, welding, GED: the impact of prison education
On a typical school day, the carpentry workshop at Ingram State Technical College is buzzing with activity. Men in white prison uniforms chisel, saw and paint, transforming raw wood into decorative tables, chairs and art. Instructor Eddie Lucas watches from the front of the room.
China: prison virus loopholes sound alarm to society
On Friday, a prison in Rencheng, Shandong Province, reported 200 new cases of novel coronavirus infection. Another 27 were reported in Shilifeng prison in Zhejiang Province. These new cases added to a sudden uptick in the nation’s overall number of infected cases, which shouldn’t have happened at a…