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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.
Venezuela: denuncian violación de DDHC a reclusos en la subdelegación Cicpc Las Acacias
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Estados Unidos: la paradoja de la pena de muerte
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France: la journaliste Dominique Simonnot nommée contrôleuse générale des prisons
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France: le Conseil constitutionnel exige une loi pour faire respecter la dignité humaine en prison
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France: des kits d'hygiène féminine distribués gratuitement aux détenues de la maison d'arrêt de Nîmes
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United Kingdom: lockdown conditions leave prisoners at risk of serving longer sentences
Lockdown conditions in prisons have effectively ended opportunities for prisoners to take part in rehabilitation activities and progress in their sentences. For the nearly 11,000 prisoners serving indeterminate sentences (9,000 unreleased; 2,000 recalled), this could lead to them spending significa…United States: conditions at South Carolina juvenile facility unconstitutional
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) issued notice on February 5, 2020 that it has found the “totality of the conditions, practices, and incidents” it discovered at Broad River Road Complex (BRRC), South Carolina’s long-term juvenile commitment facility, violated the juveniles’ Fourteenth Amendment…
Taste — 10/12
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…
Bangladesh: hay que liberar a cientos de trabajadores y trabajadoras migrantes en detención arbitraria
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Venezuela: el ministerio penitenciario ortogó 80 libertades con régimen de confianza en Guárico
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Argentina: por qué son cada vez más las mujeres presas por vender drogas
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España: una concentración en Bilbao pide durante toda la noche otra política penitenciaria
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Afghanistan: life in prison, looking to the future from behind bars
For many people, prison is only a place where criminals serve their sentence. But there are also prisoners who are transformed during their imprisonment, deciding to abandon their past and change their future. Recently the directorate of prisons initiated a new program called “Prisoners’ Literacy a…Venezuela: los "pures" caen presos mientras intentan sobrevivirI
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United States: California announces first closure of state prison since 2003
A California assemblymember said nearly $200 million in operating costs will be saved after the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s (CDCR) announcement on Friday of the closure of a state prison in Tracy. The Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy was chosen for closure based o…France : le sport en prison, "c'est le seul moyen pour s'évader"
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