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Justice Minister Delroy Chuck is moving to have justice centres established in each parish to provide training for justices of the peace (JPs) in the areas of restorative justice, mediation and child diversion.
News
Central America and the Caribbean
Women
Health
In Jamaica, women incarcerated while pregnant face the painful reality of being separated from their newborn up to six months after giving birth — a reality which often leads to anxiety and depression for the rest of their stay in prison.
News
The National Security Ministry has announced that all correctional officers and recruits are to be polygraphed as part of new measures aimed at cutting the smuggling of cell phones and other contraband into correctional facilities.
News
Central America and the Caribbean
Access to legal rights
Mental health
Jamaica: helping move mentally ill out of prison not an issue
“Resources and funding” have been identified by Health and Wellness Minister Dr
News
Jamaica has long been regarded as a homophobic country, and now a damning report on HIV/AIDS in the country’s prisons has unearthed some alarming problems.
According to a new report, Barriers Behind Bars, inmates who have been identified as lesbian or gay are being unfairly treated.
The report prep…
News
Several of the island’s correctional facilities are in need of urgent infrastructural development, and the Tower Street Adult Correctional Facility in downtown Kingston is among those to receive priority focus, Senator Pearnel Charles Jr, minister of state in the Ministry of National Security, has…
News
Central America and the Caribbean
Mental health
Jamaica: mentally ill incarcerated people denied release from prison
Applications by the Legal Aid Council for the Supreme Court to release six
News
Mental health
Persons held in Jamaica’s prisons who have been deemed ‘unfit to plead’ could be moved into a more fitting environment if the Government accepts the recommendations of the Mental Health and Homelessness Task Force, established by Minister of Health Dr Christopher Tufton.
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Former district constable and garage operator, 67-year-old Linton Berry, is crying for help from prison as he fears losing his sight because of the lack of a proper diet and medication for his diabetes.
News
Central America and the Caribbean
Minors
Human rights advocacy group Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) has raised concerns that the practice has re-emerged and provided The Sunday Gleaner with statistics which suggest that in 2018, some 413 children (211 males and 203 girls) appeared before court, not for committing an offence but for exhibitin…
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North America
Foreign prisoners
Justice
Jamaican citizens account for more than half the total number of Caribbean citizens now incarcerated in United States (US) prisons.
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William S. Sires, a 72-year-old convicted murderer, was walking with a cane in a maximum-security prison in Shirley when he was ambushed and killed by other inmates nearly four years ago.
Global prison trends 2018
Analysis Report
Analysis
North America
Report
Central America and the Caribbean
Pre-trial detention
South America
Women
Asia
Europe
Middle East
Long-term prisoners
Justice
Overcrowding
Penal Reform International and the Thailand Institute of Justice co-published their 2018 annual report aiming to provide a global account on the state of prisons and the use of imprisonment throughout the world.
News
Coronavirus
Women
Access to legal rights
Health
Material conditions
Social ties
reçu aucune à cause des restrictions liées au COVID-19. En Jamaïque, Maria Carla Gullotta, fondatrice de l’ONG Stand Up for Jamaica, dont l’objectif est
Panama: fighting for my life
Testimonial
Central America and the Caribbean
Women
Testimonial
Health
Material conditions
Social ties
Yonta J. was incarcerated in a Panamanian prison for three years, from March 2015 to January 2018. She faced hardships that still impact her life today. This is the story of her daily life in prison.
News
Coronavirus
North America
Central America and the Caribbean
South America
Health
Material conditions
Protest
The Covid-19 does not stop at prison gates. Prisoners often live in overcrowded cells and unsanitary contexts, sharing cells.
What measures are taken to guarantee the safety of all prisoners and prison staff? What are the consequences of the pandemic on the living conditions in prisons? — Update 31…