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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.
10 dead in Paraguay prison riot
At least 10 people died during a riot in the San Pedro prison here on Sunday, with five of them having been beheaded, state media has reported. Paraguayan newspaper reported that four people died due to sustaining burns since a long time, while one more died later in a hospital, after quoting prose…
Côte d'Ivoire: le taux de surpopulation carcérale atteint les 266%
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France: Une prison d'un nouveau genre verra le jour à Orléans en 2022 dans le quartier des Groues
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Mauritanie: un rapport sur la peine de mort apporte un éclairage sur les limites de la justice dans ce pays
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Australia: Canberra's prison applied dress standards to visitors which could breach the Discrimination Act
The ACT Human Rights Commission is seeking clarification about the dress standards imposed on visitors at Canberra’s jail which included a ban on swimsuits, tight-fitting clothing and skirts shorter than mid-thigh.Belarus: un prisonnier condamné à mort exécuté
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India: Amnesty International highlights human rights violations in Indian-occupied Kashmir
The Amnesty International said on Wednesday that the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act (PSA) circumvents the criminal justice system in the Indian-occupied Kashmir to undermine accountability, transparency and respect for human rights. The briefing, “Tyranny of A ‘Lawless Law’: Detention without…France: Condé-sur-Sarthe, une prison sous haute tension
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Uruguay: una cárcel simula un pueblo para recuperar presos
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United States: San Francisco announces plan to stop charging jail inmates for phone calls
San Francisco Mayor London Breed and Sheriff Vicki Hennessy on Wednesday announced plans to stop charging inmates to make phone calls from jail and to eliminate the county’s markups on items sold at the jail commissary.Spain: el rugby entrará en las cárceles catalanas como herramienta socializadora
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Argentina: la sobrepoblación pone en riesgo a las cárceles
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Switzerland: des élus vaudois veulent améliorer les conditions des femmes en prison
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Tajikistan: Submission to UN Human Rights Committee's Review
This memorandum provides an overview of Human Rights Watch’s main concerns with respect to the human rights situation in Tajikistan, submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (“the Committee”) in advance of its pre-sessional review of Tajikistan in July 2019. We hope it will inform the…United States: after a transgender woman’s death at Rikers, calls for justice and answers
In April, Layleen Polanco, a transgender woman, was arrested on misdemeanor assault charges and sent to the Rikers Island jail complex because she could not afford to pay a $500 bail. Nearly two months later, she was found dead in her cell.
Time — 1/12
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…Canada: un premier centre d'injection supervisée dans une prison canadienne
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Libya: l'ONU dénonce les conditions de détention «épouvantables» des migrants
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