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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.
Spain: imputado por defender presos
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Spain: alertan del elevado número de casos de enfermedad mental en las cárceles
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Belgium: la prison de Mons, photographiée par des détenus et exposée sur les murs d'enceinte
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France: les Éris ou la normalisation de la violence en prison
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Pakistan: decoding the prison class system
The recent accountability drive has seen a number of high-profile prisoners — including former president Asif Ali Zardari and former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi — demanding that they be provided better class facilities in jail. However, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government in its latest…
Philippines: Lacson wants steps to tackle corruption in Bilibid prison
Senator Panfilo Lacson wants laws to address corruption and dismantle syndicates at the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) as he lamented that high-profile inmates, not government officials, were running the penitentiary. The senator cited reports that some prisoners have become “more powerful” than Bureau o…
China: cárceles con sistema de vigilancia para controlar a musulmanes
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Myanmar : notorious prison presents a friendlier face to inmates
Mention Insein Prison and what comes to mind are images of abused inmates, unbridled corruption and sub-human conditions. Myanmar’s main penitentiary, located on the outskirts of Yangon, gained notoriety during five decades of military rule as a place where political dissidents were incarcerated an…France : comment Belloubet veut faire changer la pratique des juges
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France : entre le Genepi et l'administration pénitentiaire, la rupture est consommée
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New Zealand: measles lockdown - prisoners isolated, babies quarantined over fears disease has hit women's prison
Prisoners have been isolated and babies put into quarantine at Auckland Region Women’s Corrections Facility over fears of a measles outbreak. On Tuesday night, Corrections informed Newshub there were concerns three female prisoners had been exposed to measles. They will remain isolated until their…
Hearing — 4/12
Each month, the photographer Bertrand Gaudillère creates an image or chooses one from his archives. Prison Insider sends it to a dozen participants, prisoners around the world.They are in Argentina, in the United States of America, in France, in Switzerland, in Guatemala, in Ukraine, in Colombia, i…
France : Walid, du "trou noir" de l’enfance à la réinsertion
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France : justice, une réforme en mode mineur
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Belgium : la première étude belge sur la surpopulation des prisons est menée à Lantin
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