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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.
Ecuador: mejorar la alimentación en las cárceles sigue siendo un pendiente
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Mauritania: Nouakchott: mutinerie à la prison pour femmes
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Chile: alertan sobre alto índice de violencia en cárceles
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Cuba: el régimen excarcelará a más de 2.600 presos por el hacinamiento en sus cárceles
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Canada: santé mentale en prison, « une fabrique d’itinérance »
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France: visite du quartier pour détenus radicalisés de la prison de la Santé
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USA: NJ limits solitary confinement in prisons, hailed as "historic" criminal justice step
New Jersey will limit the use of solitary confinement in correctional facilities and effectively ban it outright for certain people, including the young and elderly, pregnant women and members of the LGBTQ community.
Morocco: la triste situation des prisons marocaines
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The Salvador: l’Eglise lutte contre la violence dans les prisons
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Belgium: le Conseil central de surveillance pénitentiaire recrute 350 citoyens pour observer les prisons du pays
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Mexico: Piden rehabilitar a menores que salen de las cárceles
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El Salvador: Gobierno e Iglesia luchan contra la violencia
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Touch — 2/12
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…Taking equitable health to prisons the Malawian way
The late founding president of democratic South Africa, Nelson Mandela, once famously said: “It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.”
Moroccan: plus de 100% de taux d’occupation dans 12 des 15 prisons marocaines
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France: enquête sur la difficile gestion des radicalisés
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Egypt: detainees trapped in ‘revolving doors’ of prison system as authorities bypass release orders
The Egyptian authorities’ growing trend of re-imprisoning people who have been arbitrarily detained, instead of complying with court orders to release them is an alarming signal of how decayed the country’s justice system has become, said Amnesty International.UK: I worked in a pupil referral unit for years. The government's new "secure schools" are just a pipeline to prison
The ease with which contracts for these youth jail schemes are being secured by for-profit organisations is dizzying. All they’ll do is preside over another disproportionately black, poor, male and disabled population
United States: dans les prisons américaines, les nouilles lyophilisées remplacent les dollars
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