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USA : how one inmate discovered his private prison was ripping him off—and took his warden to court
Thousands of inmates file lawsuits against their prison every year. Most who sue without a lawyer are unceremoniously dismissed without much legal back-and-forth. Michael Leatherwood, an inmate in a private prison in Oklahoma, is an exception. He’s gotten notably further with his lawsuit, which all…
France : construction de nouvelles prisons, une politique qui mène droit dans le mur
Communiqué commun dont Prison Insider est signataire. 69 375 : c’est le nombre de personnes qui étaient détenues dans les prisons en juillet dernier, la France atteignant ainsi des taux de détention inégalés depuis le XIXe siècle. Contraignant 3 à 4 personnes à partager des cellules de 9 m2 en mais…Costa Rica ordena cerrar sus peores calabozos
Casi 15 años después de la crítica del Comité contra la Tortura de Naciones Unidas, Costa Rica ha decidido clausurar de manera definitiva los 44 espacios carcelarios conocidos como Las Tumbas, en mitad de la mayor cárcel de Costa Rica, llamada La Reforma. La medida es el más reciente de los pasos d…
UK : prisoner died after jail staff "failed to treat his severe asthma"
A prison inmate who suffered from severe asthma died due to “serious failings” in the way jail staff managed his medical condition, a coroner has ruled. Senior Coroner Andre Rebello has warned that unless lessons are learned from the death of Ashley Gil, the prison service may experience future fat…
USA : for Obama, a shift in clemency strategy
For 126 federal inmates who received presidential clemency last month, the good news might have come with a dose of disappointment. President Obama had granted their requests for commutations, using his constitutional pardon power to shorten their sentences for drug offenses. But instead of releasi…
India : 1,700 died in overcrowded prisons in 2014 ; 89 % of natural causes
As many as 1,702 prisoners died in jails nationwide in 2014, according to this reply by the ministry of home affairs to the Lok Sabha (Parliament’s lower house) in August 2016. While 1,507 (89 percent) died of natural causes, 195 (11 percent) died of unnatural causes, such as “suicide, execution, m…Italy : the "torture room" in Poggioreale prison
“Room Zero” is known as one of the worst places to be sent if you are an inmate of the jail in Poggioreale, Naples. Officially this room is an isolation room; unofficially, “Room Zero” is a torture chamber. An investigation has been launched into the crimes allegedly committed by 23 people (22 pris…England and Wales : rise in prisoners moved to mental health hospitals
More prisoners are being diagnosed with mental health problems requiring hospital treatment, official figures obtained by the Guardian show. The number of male prisoners being transferred to hospital under the 1983 Mental Health Act grew by more than 20% between 2011 and 2014 in England and Wales,…France : mutinerie à la prison de Vivonne dans la Vienne, un bâtiment incendié
La mutinerie en cours depuis lundi 17h à la prison de Vivonne, près de Poitiers (Vienne), a pris fin vers 22h15 après une intervention des forces spécialisées. La situation est sous “contrôle” au deuxième étage du bâtiment, foyer de l’incident, a indiqué le ministère de la Justice. “Aucun personnel…
What it looks like to be behind bars in four different countries
After photographing civil servants in eight countries across five continents for his book, Bureaucratics, Jan Banning thought looking at criminal justice systems around the world seemed like a logical next step. In his new book, Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice, which will be released…
Malawi prisoners go for days without food
As Malawi faces El Nino-induced hunger which has affected 6.5 million people, inmates in the country’s prisons are going for days without food. A survey by Medicins San Frontiers (MSF) revealed that as a food crisis unfolded in the southern Africa nation, prisons were failing to purchase simple foo…USA : the true cost of mass incarceration exceeds $1 trillion
In recent years, the bipartisan push for criminal justice reform has been fueled in large part by the astronomical price tag that comes with mass incarceration. Locking people up in federal, state, and local correctional facilities costs the government a whopping $80 billion, and taxpayers end up f…
Israël et territoires palestiniens occupés : la Cour suprême autorise l'alimentation de force des prisonniers grévistes de la faim
La Cour suprême israélienne a confirmé dimanche les dispositions d’une loi permettant d’alimenter de force des prisonniers grévistes de la faim si leur vie est en danger, selon un document de justice.États-Unis : harcelée en prison, Chelsea Manning en grève de la faim pour défendre se transsexualité
Afin d’obtenir les soins hormonaux nécessaires à son changement de sexe comme obtenu en justice, Chelsea Manning, incarcérée pour son rôle dans la révélation du scandale WikiLeaks, a annoncé ce samedi qu’elle arrêtait de se nourrir. “Je ne demande rien d’autre que la dignité et le respect”. Tels so…USA : Incarceration in the U.S. costs more than $1 trillion a year, Washington University study claims
The economic toll of incarceration in the U.S. tops $1 trillion, and more than half of that falls on the families and communities of the people incarcerated, according to a recent study by Washington University researchers. “For every dollar in corrections spending, there’s another 10 dollars of ot…USA : treating young offenders like adults is bad parenting
Part of the philosophy for creating a separate juvenile-justice system in the United States is the idea that the state can act as a parent, or parens patriae—protector, caretaker, disciplinarian—when a young person fails to respect the rights of others, commits petty or serious crimes, or shirks ag…
Uruguay : en ocho meses se alcanzó récord de presos muertos
Treinta y un presos fueron asesinados en lo que va de 2016 en las cárceles uruguayas, y más de 70 resultaron con heridas de entidad por armas blancas y quemaduras de colchones de polifón. En los últimos cuatro días, fueron ultimadas tres personas, dos resultaron con heridas y quemaduras graves y ot…