Editorial
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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.
France: un nouveau plan sur la santé des détenus
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Egypt: ‘Hospitals are for the dying’, medical negligence inside Egyptian prisons
Inside his prison cell, Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh’s health has severely deteriorated. The issue is not a new one. For years, local and international rights groups have repeatedly warned that conditions in Egypt’s prisons — especially access to health care — fell far below acceptable standards.
France: danse en milieu carcéral, “l’éveil des sensations” par Angelin Preljocaj
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Belgium: Lantin, des cours artistiques au sein de la prison
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Belgium: No hope for improvement in voting system
Most Belgian prisoners have the right to vote but few choose to exercise it. Vanessa de Greef, PhD in law at the Open University of Brussels, is studying this topic as part of her research. In her capacity as vice-president of the Belgian League for Human Rights, she took part in organising worksho…
USA: New York City’s plan to build new jails draws backlash
Despite corrections staff shuttling through the massive complex that houses roughly 7,800 inmates, from the outside, the jails on Rikers Island look abandoned. An eerie serenity is marred by the sounds of jet planes from neighboring LaGuardia Airport. The roars rattle around the rundown jails, them…
Gabon: des détenus parmi les candidats au baccalauréat
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USA: the U.S. prison system can harm young brains, scientist warns
A teen’s brain does not magically mature into its adult form the night before someone’s 18th birthday. In fact, brain development will continue into a person’s 20s. This neural fine-tuning has serious implications for young people caught in the U.S. justice system, argues neuroscientist B.J. Casey.USA : gangs ran this private prison
It was a prison brimming with violence, awash in weapons—and severely short on guards to patrol its cell blocks. But security-camera footage caught the action when Brad Fitch arrived in unit F at Mississippi’s Wilkinson County Correctional Facility on Jan. 31, 2018.
Paraguay: ministerio de Justicia cierra dos cárceles por superpoblación de presos
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France : l'enfer des prisons en période de canicule
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France : l’avenir du Genepi en suspens
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Argentina: peor el remedio que la enfermedad
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France: en immersion dans les unités pour détenus violents
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Chad: un mort et cinq blessés dans une tentative d'évasion
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Paraguay: más cárceles no solucionan el hacinamiento
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