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October 15, 2021

Latin America: pre-trial detention and access to justice

Prison overcrowding in Latin America - is it caused by over-use of pre-trial detention?

A discussion about rights under threat and the consequences for women, people of colour, and marginalised groups, with Isabel Roby, legal and policy officer, Fair Trials (Latin America) and Hugo Leonardo, president of the Brazilian defence lawyers’ network, Instituto de Defesa do Direito de Defesa.

Video directed by Camille Laufer

The use of imprisonment around the world

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October 15, 2021

Europe: questioning the use of pre-trial detention

Laure Baudrihaye-Gérard, European legal director of Fair Trials, and Diana Riba i Giner MEP (Greens/EFA), discuss the potential normalisation of digital hearings in the wake of the pandemic, and the over-use of pre-trial detention.

October 15, 2021

South Africa: criminalizing poverty and homelessness

Derrick Thulani Ndlovu discusses South Africa’s justice system and prison conditions with Danielle Louw, of Ndifuna Ukwazi (‘Dare to know’), a social justice activism group based in Cape Town.

October 15, 2021

Solitary confinement, COVID-19 and mental health impacts

Dr Sharon Shalev, an international expert on the use and consequences of solitary confinement and Nuno Pontes, an expert on incarceration and related human rights issues, discuss the solitary confinement and its mental health impacts.

October 15, 2021

Brazil: the impact of COVID-19 on family links and prison monitoring

Realities on the ground are discussed by Rafael Godoi, a sociologist and researcher at Rio’s Universidade Federal (UFRJ), and Alessandra Félix, an activist from Brazil’s north-eastern state of Ceará.