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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.
Nicaragua: cárcel y homofobia
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Turkey: wardens entered the prison ward, battered the inmates
Adana Branch of Human Rights Association (İHD) has talked to inmates of Osmaniye Type T No 2 Prison and prepared a report based on their accounts. HDP MP Kurtulan has submitted a Parliamentary question regarding the violation of rights in prison.
Ecuador: ¿Qué cambió el Estado de Excepción?
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Finland: la prison de la rédemption
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Thailand: restorative justice, an alternative tool for resolving prison overcrowding
Thailand Institute of Justice hopes that Restorative Justice will prove to be the crucial tool needed to resolve issues of prison overcrowding and congestion in the court system and reintegration of victims and offenders into the community.
Prisoners during the war
Seven million people were imprisoned during the First World War. One hundred years later, the exhibition ‘7 Million’ focuses on their living conditions in the camps, the reality of their captivity, and the political issues they created for the states in conflict. The International Committee of the…
Zimbabwe: 19 – 25 August 2019 set aside as Prison family Week 2019
Zimbabwe every year sets aside the Prison family Week and this year it has been set for 19 – 25 August. During this time visitors can go visit their incarcerated relatives and get to interact with them freely as family and friends. The Prison will be open from 8AM to 4PM.Spain: Sevilla, una de las cárceles con más presos con trastornos mentales graves
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UK: Boris Johnson anuncia la creación de 10.000 espacios nuevos en las prisiones
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Sight — 3/12
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…
Europe: "prisoners' rights under further pressure"
A Dutch judge, in May 2019, refused to transfer a person to an English prison, stating that the conditions of detention could amount to a real risk of inhumane and degrading treatment. The prisoner was the subject of an European Arrest Warrant (EAW). The European legal framework facilitates judicia…
Egypt: el agujero negro de la cárcel de Al Aqrab
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France : le gouvernement planche sur un contrat de travail spécifique en prison
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