Noticias 15 de junio de 2016 USA : federal officials ignored years of internal warnings about deaths at private prisons 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…
Noticias 24 de mayo de 2016 USA : Tennessee's new prison stops taking inmates Tennessee’s newest prison has stopped taking inmates after just four months of full operation. Records obtained by The Associated Press suggest why.
Noticias 18 de mayo de 2016 USA : mass reduction of California prison population didn’t cause rise in crime, two studies find 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…
Noticias 6 de abril de 2016 Etats-Unis : les prisonniers séropositifs privés de soins en Louisiane 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…