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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.
Gabon: des détenus parmi les candidats au baccalauréat
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USA: the U.S. prison system can harm young brains, scientist warns
A teen’s brain does not magically mature into its adult form the night before someone’s 18th birthday. In fact, brain development will continue into a person’s 20s. This neural fine-tuning has serious implications for young people caught in the U.S. justice system, argues neuroscientist B.J. Casey.USA : gangs ran this private prison
It was a prison brimming with violence, awash in weapons—and severely short on guards to patrol its cell blocks. But security-camera footage caught the action when Brad Fitch arrived in unit F at Mississippi’s Wilkinson County Correctional Facility on Jan. 31, 2018.
Paraguay: ministerio de Justicia cierra dos cárceles por superpoblación de presos
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France : l'enfer des prisons en période de canicule
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France : l’avenir du Genepi en suspens
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Argentina: peor el remedio que la enfermedad
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France: en immersion dans les unités pour détenus violents
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Chad: un mort et cinq blessés dans une tentative d'évasion
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Paraguay: más cárceles no solucionan el hacinamiento
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USA: après la prison
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USA: Texas prison guards to get a small raise, but some doubt it will help with chronic understaffing
The state’s two-year budget provided $84 million to increase salaries for correctional officers and other prison employees as the Texas Department of Criminal Justice faces nearly 4,000 empty guard positions.