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Canada: double bind for incarcerated minors
The approach to dealing with young people in conflict with the law is changing, yet imprisonment remains the answer.
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— “Speakers’ Corner” series, season II (3)
Hidden prison, modern prison, dilapidated prison, “open” prison: wall to wall, Prison Insider investigated the links between city and prison. In partnership with Rescaled, we gave a number of different people a space to share their point of view.
Nicolas Sallée is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Montreal. He co-authors the graphic novel, Fighting the walls: A sociologist in a youth centre (Se battre contre les murs : Un sociologue en centre jeunesse), alongside illustrator Alexandra Dion-Fortin. In it, he recounts daily life inside a secure unit for young people serving custody and supervision sentences in Montreal, Quebec. We asked him three questions.
The constraint of confinement is intrinsically coupled with the constraint of rehabilitation.
Confinement is inherently violent, even when the term “prison” is conveniently removed.
More and more research shows that young people face a long, precarious, and often bumpy road away from delinquency.
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A prison in the City
France: "a change of tactics"
In 2020, the French government was found to have violated the European Convention on Human Rights, due to demeaning detention conditions in French prisons. What is the state of affairs in the country two years after the ruling by the European Court of Human Rights? The National Human Rights Advisor…Netherlands: Ultra-secure prison to get its own courtroom
Judges there will be able to handle the sessions of criminal cases, reducing the need to transfer detainees to courthouses elsewhere in the Netherlands. The small courtroom within the walls of the penitentiary will cost 15 million euros and is already under construction, wrote Legal Protection Mini…Source — NL Times
France: “Non-places"
Grégoire Korganow is a photographer. His series Périphéries (Surroundings) reveals the geography of incarceration in France: places in the middle of nowhere farther than the eye can see. He spoke with Prison Insider about one of his photographs.North Korea: Camp 15 is reorganized to increase prison population
North Korea has recently been working to reorganize the Yodok concentration camp for political prisoners (also known as Camp 15) and rebuild and repair its facilities with the goal of housing more inmates there, Daily NK has learned. “North Korea recently eliminated a zone at Camp 15 and repaired a…Source — Daily NK