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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.
USA : douzième exécution depuis le début de l’année
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USA: Kansas’ low-staff, long-term prison deal hints at a booming future for private corrections
On Valentine’s Day at one of Kansas’ largest state prisons, the new Democratic governor, Laura Kelly, stood before a room of corrections officers in body armor and black polos and begged them not to leave their jobs.
Protecting LGBTI people deprived of their freedom: a fundamental duty
The Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT), headquartered in Geneva, has been working for forty years to prevent abuse in prison, especially by strengthening the monitoring bodies in places of deprivation of liberty. It is publishing a monitoring guide for the protection of LGBTI persons i…
Cameroon: Human Rights Watch dénonce la torture de détenus
This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: French
India: overcrowding, inadequate staff and lack of menstrual products in Haryana prisons: study
Undignified body searches, absence of proper health and hygiene facilities for female prisoners, inadequate staff, overcrowding and racism are some of the issues afflicting prisons in Haryana, a study by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) and Haryana State Legal Services Authority has…
“Prison confines the world in small spaces”
Books written by Brigitte Brami carry an impression of walls and confinement: all her works are either inspired by or were completed in prison. Solidarity between women, violence, and body constraints: this is how she perceives prisons. Prison Insider spoke to Brigitte Brami, a poet and former pris…
Spain: se duplican las muertes por consumo de drogas en las cárceles
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Nicaragua: cárcel y homofobia
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Turkey: wardens entered the prison ward, battered the inmates
Adana Branch of Human Rights Association (İHD) has talked to inmates of Osmaniye Type T No 2 Prison and prepared a report based on their accounts. HDP MP Kurtulan has submitted a Parliamentary question regarding the violation of rights in prison.
Ecuador: ¿Qué cambió el Estado de Excepción?
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Finland: la prison de la rédemption
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Thailand: restorative justice, an alternative tool for resolving prison overcrowding
Thailand Institute of Justice hopes that Restorative Justice will prove to be the crucial tool needed to resolve issues of prison overcrowding and congestion in the court system and reintegration of victims and offenders into the community.
Prisoners during the war
Seven million people were imprisoned during the First World War. One hundred years later, the exhibition ‘7 Million’ focuses on their living conditions in the camps, the reality of their captivity, and the political issues they created for the states in conflict. The International Committee of the…