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New Zealand: measles lockdown - prisoners isolated, babies quarantined over fears disease has hit women's prison
Prisoners have been isolated and babies put into quarantine at Auckland Region Women’s Corrections Facility over fears of a measles outbreak. On Tuesday night, Corrections informed Newshub there were concerns three female prisoners had been exposed to measles. They will remain isolated until their…
Hearing — 4/12
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…
France : Walid, du "trou noir" de l’enfance à la réinsertion
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France : justice, une réforme en mode mineur
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Belgium : la première étude belge sur la surpopulation des prisons est menée à Lantin
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Éthiopie: la tristement célèbre prison Maekelawi ouvre ses portes au public
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USA: judge threatens to lock up Texas prison officials over air conditioning violation
A federal judge was visibly frustrated Friday as he suggested that putting state officials in uncooled cells might be the only way to get their attention after they broke a settlement agreement to keep some inmates in air conditioning.Sénégal: ces photos ne montrent pas des détenus au Sénégal mais les conditions de détention y demeurent "extrêmement préoccupantes"
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Turkey: doble castigo para los presos LGTBI
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France : les détenus condamnés pour terrorisme peuvent demander un aménagement de peine
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USA: justice for all: how Camp Grace strives to make prison safer
For an NBC News series shedding light on the nation’s criminal justice system, TODAY’s Craig Melvin travels to California’s Salinas Valley State Prison to learn about its Camp Grace program. The wives of two incarcerated men say the summer camp is offering inmates a chance at redemption.USA: we must abolish prisons to rebuild communities fractured by mass incarceration
It is sometimes said that we can’t be what we cannot see, so are we able to imagine a world without jails and prisons? The U.S. is the world’s leader in incarceration. But how and where would we even begin to dismantle this enormous so-called prison-industrial complex, and what are the real solutio…
Germany: los 'menús de pena' que se sirven en las cárceles
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USA: New York plan to close notorious prison clears hurdle
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