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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.
Chile: la pandemia en las cárceles, riesgo de contagio de la población penal es 6 veces más alto
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Russia: le mystère de la faible propagation du coronavirus dans les prisons
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France: surpopulation, personnel débordé, locaux "immondes", le triste bilan des prisons françaises en 2019
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France: près de 1 000 personnalités et organisations appellent Emmanuel Macron à "une véritable politique de déflation carcérale"
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France: la Chancellerie demande aux juges de ne pas faire exécuter les peines d'incarcération de moins de six mois
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France: crise du Covid-19, une occasion historique pour les prisons
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Honduras: prison brawl leaves six dead, two injured
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Six inmates died and two more were injured between Saturday night and Sunday morning in a violent brawl in a Honduran women’s prison home to 835, part of which was set on fire, a prison official said on Sunday. The brawl started on Saturday night in the National Women’s Peni…Mexico: eight inmates killed in prison fight
PUENTE GRANDE, Mexico (Reuters) - A violent clash at a prison in Mexico’s central state of Jalisco on Friday left eight inmates dead and another eight prisoners hospitalized with injuries, state security officials said. During the incident at a jail in the Puente Grande complex, three people were k…France: le ministère de la justice veut limiter les emballements de sortie de crise
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France: la reprise des parloirs, très encadrée, laisse détenus et familles "frustrés"
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France: ce que le confinement nous a fait vivre doit nous interroger sur la prison
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France: “Le Grand Jour, de la prison à l’Odéon” sur LCP, le théâtre pour briser ses chaînes
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USA: en Floride, des milliers d’anciens détenus pourraient retrouver leur droit de vote
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USA: cleaning supplies are so scarce at this arizona prison, detainees are using shampoo and menstrual pads, lawsuit says
The plaintiffs want an independent expert to assess whether the facility has implemented social distancing measures, testing procedures, and hygiene practices adequate enough to reasonably protect detainees from contracting COVID-19 while in custody.USA: COVID-19 takes a hidden toll behind bars
COVID-19 is spreading rapidly in U.S. jails and prisons, but testing of inmates and staff remains spotty and many confirmed cases are going unreported. The resulting lack of data has deep implications for the fight against the virus, because prison outbreaks can move easily to surrounding communiti…France: pourquoi la crise sanitaire révèle les dysfonctionnements du “tout carcéral”
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Canada: décès d’un autre prisonnier, les proches des détenus lancent un appel à l’aide
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USA: a nation of prisons and pandemics
The United States Penitentiary Canaan holds about 1,300 people. Qwantay A. is one of them. He has been incarcerated for 16 years and will be released in 2034. He drew some parallels between the coronavirus pandemic and mass incarceration, and shared his thoughts with Prison Insider.Colombia: siete horas de angustia en La Modelo
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