Editorial
Prison Insider's editorial
The members of Prison Insider periodically put forth their critical points of view -- different opinions from different people are the assets of the Prison Insider team.
USA: "Capitalisme carcéral" : la prison du futur sera partout
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France: un emploi après la prison (vidéo)
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Sight — 7/12
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…
China: state claims all Uighur Muslims have happily 'graduated' from its oppressive prison camp system, despite widespread reports that at least 1 million are detained
China has imprisoned at least 1 million Uighur Muslims in prison-like detention camps in the western Xinjiang region, according to numerous activists and researchers.Canada: une cour ontarienne entendra une contestation judiciaire
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France: “wearing the prison mark”
Alternative measures to prison apply to far more people than prisoners held in custodial facilities. In France, as in many Western countries, these measures are taking precedence over prison sentences. Just over 70,000 people were incarcerated at the start of 2019. At the same time, 170,000 offende…
Argentina: piden intervención de la ONU por falta de comida en las cárceles
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France: double condamnation par la CEDH après des violences de surveillants pénitentiaires
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France: an elusive escape
Natacha Galvez taught art history to inmates at Fleury-Mérogis. She is head of communications for the organisation Art et Prison. She is studying for her doctorate in philosophie esthétique and her thesis is on the creation of art in the prison environment. The following is our interview with her.
France: "le discrédit de la notion de droits de l'homme est un symptôme inquiétant"
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Latvia: last inmates transferred from Brasa prison prior to closure
This week the last inmates were transferred from the to-be-liquidated Brasa prison to other correctional facilities, while the Brasa prison will be closed down as of April 1, Latvian Prison Administration rep Aija Fedorova told the press.France: 20 détenus pourront être indemnisés en raison de l’indignité de leurs conditions de détention
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Paraguay: "sed de derechos" expone el déficit de acceso al agua en cárceles
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Mexico: unos 200 presos realizan una huelga de hambre en la cárcel de Las Flores
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