May 2024
En prison sous les bombes
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Crises
Europe
Material conditions
Facilities
Torture
Activities
Work
Ukraine
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"Faire de chaque décès une affaire publique"
Interview
Europe
Mental health
Material conditions
Suicide
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Europe
Long-term prisoners
Justice
Suicide
Torture
United Kingdom
Nearly 3,000 prisoners in England and Wales remain in jail under Imprisonment for public protection (IPP) sentences today, and many others who have been released face the ongoing prospect of immediate recall to prison. They are experiencing a punishment that is inhumane and often amounts to psychol…
Europe
Mental health
Activities
United Kingdom
Inmates at HMP Buckley Hall in Rochdale, Lancs, were given safety goggles and allowed to demolish the wooden structures with various implements.
The ‘pallet-smashing workshop’ was praised by Charlie Taylor, the Chief Inspector of Prisons, for allowing prisoners to release their pent-up anger – and…
Asia
Foreign prisoners
Material conditions
Japan
“We don’t really give them special treatment just because they are foreign nationals,” said Atsushi Takada, an official at the prison. “But since the environment and culture in which they were brought up is too different from that of Japan’s, we need to treat them differently.”
North America
Mental health
Activities
Rehabilitation
United States
Members of the public can send their dog at the Washington Corrections Center for Women for boarding, grooming and training through a program founded with the belief that human-animal bonds could be beneficial to people in prison.
United States: youth detention facilities face increased scrutiny amid a wave of abuse lawsuits
News
North America
Minors
Justice
Violence
United States
As a teenager almost 20 years ago, Jeffery Christian was sent to a juvenile detention center in southern Illinois. He says he expected to use his time there to grow and change, with the support of the staff around him.
“Instead I was sexually abused and neglected,” Christian said at a recent press…
Iran: spreading fear
Interview
Middle East
Justice
Death penalty
Violence
Iran
More than 800 people sentenced to death in Iran were executed in 2023. The authorities have resumed carrying out death sentences in public, using it to instil fear in the population. The NGOs Iran Human Rights and Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM) shed light on capital punishment in Iran to…
Africa
Justice
Drugs
Death penalty
Nigeria
Nigeria’s Senate proposed significantly toughening penalties for drug trafficking, making the death penalty the new maximum sentence through a law amendment.The amendment, which is not yet law, replaces life imprisonment, which was previously the harshest punishment.
Central America and the Caribbean
Access to legal rights
Mexico
Prisoners awaiting trial or sentencing began voting Monday in Mexico’s presidential election from inside jails - a first for the Latin American nation.
Surviving
Analysis
Inside Outside
Africa
North America
South America
Asia
Europe
Middle East
Material conditions
Prison Insider, represented by Clara Grisot, contributed twelve compositions to the book InsideOutside to articulate, in a few words, the current challenges of prison life. Sixth piece: food