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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.
Mexico: buscan erradicar estigmas penitenciarios a través del empleo
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Mexico: centros penitenciarios, los olvidados en México
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Argentina: Alejandro Slokar, “las cárceles son hoy una bomba con la mecha encendida”
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Uruguay: 26% de reclusos tienen condiciones "crueles, inhumanas y degradantes"
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Chile: los motines también se propagan
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Spain: interior inicia la desescalada en el aislamiento de las cárceles
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France: "They’ve put us back in prison"
Samy is detained on partial release in the west of France, in Le Mans. It is normally possible for these prisoners to go out during the week, notably to seek employment. Faced with the coronavirus pandemic and to limit social contact, those who are on partial release have been placed in detention.…Cyprus: released inmates ask to go back to prison
Four prisoners who were released from prison earlier this month have asked to be brought back because they have no place to go. Nicosia central prisons director Anna Aristotelous said on Wednesday that two of the four prisoners were part of the early release of 130 inmates in early April as part of…
Colombia: van 324 contagios confirmados y tres muertes
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Belgium: près de 42.000 masques de protection fabriqués par les détenus
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Belgium: les détenus et leurs proches sont en colère et se sentent oubliés
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El Salvador: where social distancing is impossible
Latin America has some of the most overcrowded jails in the world. With prisoners crammed into tiny cells by the dozen, social distancing is impossible and poor medical facilities mean any outbreak of coronavirus would spread like wildfire. The United Nations has urged governments to do more to pro…
USA: what data exists about Native American people in the criminal justice system?
Problems with data collection - and an unfortunate tendency to group Native Americans together with other ethnic and racial groups in data publications - have made it hard to understand the effect of mass incarceration on Native people. The scarcity of data on Native Americans in the U.S. criminal…
South Africa: plans under way to remove babies of offenders from East London prison after Covid-19 outbreak
The correctional services department is making plans for babies of two offenders at an East London female prison to be taken to their mothers’ families after cases of Covid-19 at the correctional facility. There are 26 confirmed coronavirus cases at the East London Correctional Centre. Three are in…USA: inmates at N.J. women’s prison endured years of sex abuse, justice dept. finds
WASHINGTON — Inmates at New Jersey’s only state prison for women were regularly sexually assaulted by guards and sometimes forced to engage in sex acts with other prisoners while staff members looked on, according to a Justice Department report released on Monday detailing widespread, pervasive sex…
Afghanistan: prison chief laments conditions in country's jails
In unusually frank comments on April 21, Afghanistan’s new prison chief Ahmad Rashid Totakhail complained to journalists about widespread abuses in the country’s prison system. Totakhail described problems ranging from the lack of a comprehensive database on the length of detainees’ sentences to se…Russia: penitentiaries in the pandemic
Russian officials say coronavirus hasn’t infected a single inmate, but COVID-19 has undeniably changed life behind bars in big ways Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, several countries around the world have begun releasing large numbers of inmates to curb the spread of the disease behind pri…
Cambodia: exclusive footage reveals deplorable prison conditions
Amnesty International is releasing shocking footage providing first-hand evidence of the inhumane conditions and extreme overcrowding inside one of Cambodia’s prisons. The organization recently called the country’s detention facilities a “ticking time bomb” for a potentially disastrous coronavirus…
Nigeria: 70% of Nigerian prisoners held without trial
At least three-quarters of Nigeria’s total prison population are inmates serving time without being sentenced, the Nigerian Correctional Service said this on Thursday. The head of the agency, Ja’afaru Ahmed, 51,983 inmates are awaiting trial out of the prison’s total population of 73, 726 inmates.…Greece: reforming prison system and ending police ill-treatment are urgent priorities, says CPT
After a visit to prisons in Greece last year, the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) recommends that the Greek authorities remedy structural problems that have led to enduring ill-treatment of detainees, prison overcrow…Spain: las videollamadas llegan a las cárceles
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