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Seen in the press
Read our selection of press reports about this country. This is a short description of prison conditions on a national scale. It gives an account of the preceding year’s events.
United States: how secret languages thrive behind bars?
On a now-private Facebook page, a prison guard in Texas casually joked last month about wanting to “gas” prisoners (throw urine or feces at them). Others in Georgia and Missouri posted about putting inmates in “the box” or “the hole” (slang for sending them to disciplinary confinement).
Indonésia: Mathias Echène détenu à Bali
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France: plongée dans la seule prison pour mineurs d'Île-de-France
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Belgium: un détenu fait condamner la Belgique devant la Cour européenne des droits de l’Homme
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Spain: catorce cárceles acogerán cursos de verano para presos y ciudadanos libres
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Brazil: 55 inmates killed in spate of prison riots
Fifty-five inmates have died in gang-related riots at four prisons in western Brazil, according to authorities. Fifteen prisoners were found dead Sunday and 40 more Monday in the city of Manaus, the capital of the state of Amazonas, the region’s Governor Wilson Lima said.France: le casse-tête de l’administration pénitentiaire
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Russia: inmate dies in Russia after being tortured in "De Facto Murder," asctivists say
An inmate has died in a Russian prison as a result of torture, activists have reported, in what they say was a “de facto murder.” Several leaked videos showing prisoner abuse over the past year have led to a mass outcry over torture and nationwide inspections to root out violence.France: une forte participation aux élections Européennes en prison et des résultats surprenants
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Ethiopie: l'ancien directeur d'une prison arrêté pour torture
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Venezuela: la verdad detrás de la “masacre en Acarigua”
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USA: a San Quentin prison culinary program and its restaurant-ready inmates
The scent of brown butter and toasted pine nuts wafts from the H Unit kitchen of the oldest prison in California, where eight inmates are learning to make gnocchi. Outside, the building is surrounded by guards and razor wire. But inside save for the knives chained to the work stations this could be…
Nicaragua: gobierno afirma que 142 opositores y periodistas guardan prisión
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Syria: sortie de l'enfer des prisons syriennes, une mère aspire à une "nouvelle vie"
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China: as another activist leaves prison gravely ill, Beijing’s treatment of prisoners must be investigated
The Chinese rights activist Ji Sizun was released from prison in late April after serving four and a half years on fabricated charges of “gathering a crowd to disrupt public order” and “picking quarrels.” But rather than returning home, the 69-year-old Ji was taken straight to the intensive care un…Venezuela: au moins 29 prisonniers tués lors d’une intervention des forces spéciales
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Human rights in the Argentine criminal system
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France: le centre pénitentiaire de Perpignan au bord de la crise de nerfs
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