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Switzerland: des élus vaudois veulent améliorer les conditions des femmes en prison
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Tajikistan: Submission to UN Human Rights Committee's Review
This memorandum provides an overview of Human Rights Watch’s main concerns with respect to the human rights situation in Tajikistan, submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (“the Committee”) in advance of its pre-sessional review of Tajikistan in July 2019. We hope it will inform the…
United States: after a transgender woman’s death at Rikers, calls for justice and answers
In April, Layleen Polanco, a transgender woman, was arrested on misdemeanor assault charges and sent to the Rikers Island jail complex because she could not afford to pay a $500 bail. Nearly two months later, she was found dead in her cell.
Time — 1/12
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…Canada: un premier centre d'injection supervisée dans une prison canadienne
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Libya: l'ONU dénonce les conditions de détention «épouvantables» des migrants
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He was arrested at 13. Now Saudi Arabia wants to execute him
As a boy, Qureiris participated in demonstrations like this bike ride, expressions of dissent in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province during the 2011 Arab Spring. Three years after he was filmed taking part in the bike protest, Saudi authorities arrested Qureiris, then just 13 years old. He was travelin…France: opéré dans la prison d’Angers, l’ancien détenu obtient une réparation décevante
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Equator: infraestructura y reformas del periodo correísta agravaron crisis carcelaria
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United Kingdom: decline in prison safety standards and lack of staffing "seriously hampering" inmate rehabilitation, report finds
“Perfect storm” of staffing issues, increased use of psychoactive substances and crumbling infrastructure across prison estate could be jeopardising public safety, expert warns.
Mexico: autogobierno, la crisis en las cárceles
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Syria: "Palmyre", chasser les fantômes
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Serbia: prisonniers et chiens s'offrent une deuxième chance
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France: en Prison, le théâtre pour s’évader
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United States: how secret languages thrive behind bars?
On a now-private Facebook page, a prison guard in Texas casually joked last month about wanting to “gas” prisoners (throw urine or feces at them). Others in Georgia and Missouri posted about putting inmates in “the box” or “the hole” (slang for sending them to disciplinary confinement).
Indonésia: Mathias Echène détenu à Bali
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France: plongée dans la seule prison pour mineurs d'Île-de-France
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Belgium: un détenu fait condamner la Belgique devant la Cour européenne des droits de l’Homme
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