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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.

Mexico: Piden rehabilitar a menores que salen de las cárceles
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El Salvador: Gobierno e Iglesia luchan contra la violencia
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Touch — 2/12
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…Taking equitable health to prisons the Malawian way
The late founding president of democratic South Africa, Nelson Mandela, once famously said: “It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.”
Moroccan: plus de 100% de taux d’occupation dans 12 des 15 prisons marocaines
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France: enquête sur la difficile gestion des radicalisés
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Egypt: detainees trapped in ‘revolving doors’ of prison system as authorities bypass release orders
The Egyptian authorities’ growing trend of re-imprisoning people who have been arbitrarily detained, instead of complying with court orders to release them is an alarming signal of how decayed the country’s justice system has become, said Amnesty International.UK: I worked in a pupil referral unit for years. The government's new "secure schools" are just a pipeline to prison
The ease with which contracts for these youth jail schemes are being secured by for-profit organisations is dizzying. All they’ll do is preside over another disproportionately black, poor, male and disabled population
United States: dans les prisons américaines, les nouilles lyophilisées remplacent les dollars
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Gabon: les atroces prisons d’Ali Bongo
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France: bientôt des ordinateurs dans toutes les cellules?
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United States: what do people in solitary confinement want to see?
Willie Sterling III imagined this: a line of people, bonded by a belief in his humanity, travelling up a hill in southern Illinois to a cross that sits at its peak. The cross was Bald Knob Cross of Peace, a colossus more than a hundred feet tall. It was made of concrete and varnished with porcelain…
France: des détenus de la prison de Privas creusent un tunnel avec des pieds de chaises
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France : la prison fait son Heiva des sports traditionnels
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Algeria: mutinerie à la prison de Laghouat
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Paraguay: pretenden instalar pulseras electrónicas para descongestionar cárceles
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USA: migrant child drawings depict jail-like scenes of detention
In one drawing, stick figures sleep on the ground under blankets watched by other figures with hats. Another picture has frowning stick figures behind what appears to be a chain-link fence. One shows two toilets in a small room. All of the drawings include imposing jail-like bars covering most of t…
Mauritanie: rapport sur la peine de mort, "un bagne au pays des sables"
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