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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.
Germany: los 'menús de pena' que se sirven en las cárceles
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USA: New York plan to close notorious prison clears hurdle
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Nigeria: miles de niños ilegalmente detenidos, acusados de yihadistas
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France: à Fleury-Mérogis, huit détenus formés pour empêcher les suicides en prison
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Mexico: el fin de Topo Chico, la tenebrosa y violenta prisión cerrará sus puertas
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USA: let’s fight for freedom from electronic monitors and e-carceration
I spent a whole year on that monitor, devoting a lot of that e-confinement time to considering the meaning of freedom. People kept asking me, “Well it’s better than prison, isn’t it?” I laughed and told them that that was the wrong question.UK: Big rise in assault and self-harm incidents at Highpoint Prison prompts call for the number of people in prison to be reduced
Incidents of assault and self harm at Highpoint prison have risen in recent years, amid warnings that England and Wales’ prisons have been asked “to do too much with too little for too long”.
Venezuela: el horror detrás de las rejas, un diagnóstico sobre la situación carcelaria en el país
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Yemen: saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen kill more than 60 in prison, rebels say
Airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen hit a university used as a detention center in a southwestern province on Sunday, killing at least 60 people, officials and the rebels’ health ministry said.
République Centrafricaine: surpopulation et manque de moyens chroniques à la principale prison de Bangui
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Iran: prisoners in Iran’s Gharchak prison for women protest inhumane living conditions
Two hundred inmates in Ward 5 of Gharchak Prison for women in the Iranian city of Varamin have sent an open letter to the head of the State Prisons Organization in Tehran Province protesting the prison’s inhumane living conditions.UK: forecast fall in prison numbers not "green light" for government justice reforms
A projected drop in the prison population is “no justification” for an “unevidenced ‘tough on crime’ policy” from the Government, campaigners have said. The comments came as the number of people behind bars was forecast to drop in the next five years.