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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.
Ukraine: los presos votan en la segunda vuelta de las elecciones presidenciales
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Bolivia: subcomité ONU denuncia impunidad en torturas hechas en cárceles por policías y penitenciarios
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Spain: el único centro cerrado que funciona en Barcelona y el único con un módulo para madres
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France: à Fleury-Mérogis, la première crèche en prison épaule les mamans détenues
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Venezuela: 65 détenus s'évadent d'une prison de l'île de Margarita
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France: "Prison Breakfast", une émission où l'on "invente des recettes à partir des repas fournis aux détenus"
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UK: Perth prison praised after healthcare improvements
Perth Prison has made “commendable progress” after serious concerns were raised over its healthcare provision, according to inspectors. An HM Inspectorate of Prisons for Scotland (HMIPS) report gave it a “poor performance” grading for health and wellbeing following a visit last May. Confidentiality…
Porto Rico : “En pausa” el programa de traslado de confinados a cárceles privadas de Estados Unidos
El gobierno de Puerto Rico retiró por segunda vez el contrato que sometió a la Junta de Control Fiscal (JCF) para el traslado de confinados a cárceles privadas de Estados Unidos. “Dado a que la Autoridad de Asesoría Financiera y Agencia Fiscal (AAFAF) retiró el contrato del proceso de revisión que…
Africa: prisons and contexts
Are overpopulation, squalor, epidemics and malnutrition all there is to prisons in Africa? Frédéric Le Marcis, a professor of social anthropology at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Lyon, and Marie Morelle, a geography lecturer at the University Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne, claim not. Marcis a…
Ghana: dans les prisons à ciel ouvert pour "sorcières"
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Equatorial Guinea: Teodoro Obiang lance le processus pour abolir la peine de mort
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Salvador: dans une prison surpeuplée, de redoutables gangsters apprennent un métier
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UK: elite officers sent to Welsh prisons more than 50 times
A group of elite prison officers were sent to deal with incidents in Welsh jails more than 50 times last year. These included hostage situations, prisoners climbing at heights or barricading themselves in. The Freedom of Information figures show they were called more than 600 times in total to pris…El triángulo del hacinamiento en cárceles de Centroamérica
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France: fouilles à nu, l’exception qui infirme la règle
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Zimbabwe: call to commit all women inmates to open prison
THE Zimbabwe Prison Correctional Services (ZPCS) has called on government to commit all women inmates to the open prison system. ZPCS’s assistant commissioner, Christmas Tarwira said this development will greatly assist mothers incarcerated and living with their minors. “We want the government to b…Bolivia: una consulta a los reos revela serias deficiencias en las cárceles
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Death penalty 2018: dramatic fall in global executions
Global executions fell by almost one-third last year to the lowest figure in at least a decade, Amnesty International said in its 2018 global review of the death penalty published today. The statistics assess known executions worldwide except in China, where figures thought to be in their thousands…Bolivia: tortura y tratos crueles por policías son frecuentes en cárceles
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Russia: detienen las clases de yoga en las cárceles por 'crear' presos homosexuales
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