Estados Unidos

15 de junio de 2016

USA : federal officials ignored years of internal warnings about deaths at private prisons

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In February, The Nation reported that at least 38 men died in the BOP’s privately run prisons from 1998 to 2014 in the wake of inadequate medical care. An examination of thousands of pages of previously unreleased files revealed that gravely ill prisoners had been left untreated, or relegated to th…

Fuente: The Nation

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24 de mayo de 2016

USA : Tennessee's new prison stops taking inmates

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Estados Unidos

Tennessee’s newest prison has stopped taking inmates after just four months of full operation. Records obtained by The Associated Press suggest why.

Fuente: Abc News

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18 de mayo de 2016

USA : mass reduction of California prison population didn’t cause rise in crime, two studies find

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Estados Unidos

After California’s prison population reached the crisis stage of overcrowding — with some prisons at 300 percent capacity — the state in 2011 began to parole thousands of inmates to their original counties. Within 15 months, more than 27,500 inmates had been “realigned” from state prisons to county…

Fuente: Washington Post

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6 de abril de 2016

Etats-Unis : les prisonniers séropositifs privés de soins en Louisiane

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Human Right Watch (HRW) a reccueilli les témoignages d’anciens détenus précedemment incarcérés dans des prisons de la Louisiane (sud des États-Unis), sur la dangereuse absence de soins en matière de VIH. HRW a publié à ce sujet un rapport émettant plusieurs recommandations afin de réformer ce systè…

Fuente: News 360

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