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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.
Africa: prisons and contexts
Are overpopulation, squalor, epidemics and malnutrition all there is to prisons in Africa? Frédéric Le Marcis, a professor of social anthropology at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Lyon, and Marie Morelle, a geography lecturer at the University Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne, claim not. Marcis a…
Ghana: dans les prisons à ciel ouvert pour "sorcières"
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Equatorial Guinea: Teodoro Obiang lance le processus pour abolir la peine de mort
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Salvador: dans une prison surpeuplée, de redoutables gangsters apprennent un métier
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UK: elite officers sent to Welsh prisons more than 50 times
A group of elite prison officers were sent to deal with incidents in Welsh jails more than 50 times last year. These included hostage situations, prisoners climbing at heights or barricading themselves in. The Freedom of Information figures show they were called more than 600 times in total to pris…El triángulo del hacinamiento en cárceles de Centroamérica
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France: fouilles à nu, l’exception qui infirme la règle
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Zimbabwe: call to commit all women inmates to open prison
THE Zimbabwe Prison Correctional Services (ZPCS) has called on government to commit all women inmates to the open prison system. ZPCS’s assistant commissioner, Christmas Tarwira said this development will greatly assist mothers incarcerated and living with their minors. “We want the government to b…
Bolivia: una consulta a los reos revela serias deficiencias en las cárceles
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Death penalty 2018: dramatic fall in global executions
Global executions fell by almost one-third last year to the lowest figure in at least a decade, Amnesty International said in its 2018 global review of the death penalty published today. The statistics assess known executions worldwide except in China, where figures thought to be in their thousands…Bolivia: tortura y tratos crueles por policías son frecuentes en cárceles
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Russia: detienen las clases de yoga en las cárceles por 'crear' presos homosexuales
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Spain: cárceles menos ocupadas, menos muertos y menos fugas que en Europa
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Netherlands: better prison food could be key in reducing re-offending
The Netherlands should look to Scandinavian examples and allow more prisoners to prepare and cook their own food, because there is evidence that they are less likely to re-offend, according to research carried out by the justice ministry.USA: California inmates detail prison conditions of maggots, mice falling in dining hall
Maggots and mice have fallen onto inmates’ dining tables at a California state prison where holes in the roof also allow rain and bird droppings to seep through and streak the walls, according to an inmate lawsuit that charges the state isn’t moving fast enough to repair deteriorating prisons.Belgium: le comité de surveillance dénonce une surpopulation record à 142% à la prison de Lantin
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Paraguay: la bomba de tiempo
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Greenland: monitoring and rehab
The country, which has a very small population, is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. Although it has enjoyed autonomy with respect to its justice system since 2009, the prison system remains under Danish control. Greenland currently has 139 prisoners and six prisons. It has an incarceration rate of 2…USA: should a pregnant person ever go to prison?
Siwatu-Salama Ra knew it was time to go to the hospital. As the early stages of her labor began on a day in late May 2018, officers placed handcuffs on her wrists and led her into the transport van. She arrived to the hospital and to a delivery room where, inside, armed guards would wait all day an…France: élections européennes, tous les détenus ne voteront pas avec la même facilité
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