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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.
Argentina: no hay tobilleras para todos los que reciben la domiciliaria
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Egypt: un agujero negro en tiempos del coronavirus
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USA: el miedo al coronavirus en las cárceles provoca huelgas de hambre, protestas y motines
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Argentina: coronavirus y cárceles, tensión en la Cámara de Casación Penal
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Spain: las familias de los presos ante la situación de las cárceles por la Covid-19: "ahora la condena es para nosotros”
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Colombia: la situación en las cárceles sigue sin solución
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Colombia: a un mes de tragedia en La Modelo, 73 casos de covid-19 en cárceles
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Death penalty 2019: les chiffres les plus bas de la décennie
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France: les bons de sortie sont rares pour les prévenus
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Russia: répression féroce dans une prison de Sibérie
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France: le système judiciaire et les prisons à l'épreuve de la pandémie
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USA: la détresse des détenus libérés en pleine pandémie
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Chad: la polémique enfle après la mort de membres présumés de Boko Haram en prison
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France: la crise sanitaire prouve que réduire la surpopulation carcérale est possible
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Africa: "the state of prisons is not fixed"
The online course Prisons in Africa: experiences, models and circulations gathers theoretical analysis, interviews with diffeerent actors (researchers, prison administration staff, former inmates, and activists). It aims at debunking the idea that all African prisons are the same, invariably labele…Spain: ‘terrified’ prisoners in Mallorca demand to be set free after ‘degrading’ response to Covid-19 that ‘violates their human rights’
PRISONERS locked up in Palma de Mallorca’s Penitentiary Centre have demanded to be set free due to the alleged inhuman treatment suffered during the coronavirus crisis. Lawyers representing convicts at the island’s largest prison have made an official request to government officials asking that the…Cyprus: Nicosia prisons lays out measures taken since March 10
The department for prisons on Friday announced inmates have been allowed additional phone hours and skype calls during the month that visitation has been cancelled due to Covid-19. In an announcement wishing happy Easter holidays to the inmates, the department numbered all the measures implemented…Latvia: no COVID-19 infection cases found in prisons so far
So far not a single COVID-19 infection case has been found in prisons in Latvia – neither among convicts nor among prison guards, said chief of Prison Administration (IeVP) Ilona Spure in an interview to Latvijas Radio. According to her, every new convict, is put in a 14-day quarantine after arriva…France: "on ne sait pas encore si c’est les ERIS ou le virus qui va nous mettre à terre"
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Switzerland: à Genève, les juges croulent sous la supplique sanitaire
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South America: cut prison crowding to fight Covid-19
(New York) – The unsanitary, overcrowded prisons and juvenile detention centers in most Latin American and Caribbean countries offer prime conditions for outbreaks of COVID-19 that could severely affect the health of detainees and of the population at large, Human Rights Watch said today. In March…France: à Fresnes, la double peine du confinement
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