April 2016
Africa
Sierra Leone
Child inmates are left to languish in prison with no visitors or legal assistance as many wait years for a trial.
Sorie’s last day of freedom was a few weeks before his 14th birthday, when the well-to-do father of a girl he liked got word that his daughter had been hanging around with a street boy.
Source — Al Jazeera
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Africa
Uganda
The Government of Uganda and UNICEF on Wednesday launched a child-friendly justice handbook to guide prosecutors and other actors in the criminal justice system, in handling child-related cases in a child-friendly and gender responsive manner.
The handbook is produced by the Directorate of Public P…
Source — New Vision
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Overcrowding
Morocco
Mustafa Ramid, the Moroccan minister of justice and liberties confirmed the continued overcrowding of the kingdom’s prisons and attributed the phenomenon to the now-common practice of pretrial detention and the delayed start of cases involving the prematurely arrested detainees.
Source — Morocco World News
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Africa
Uganda
At the Murchison Bay prison, a section of the Luzira prison complex, those involved are mostly aged between 22 and 35.
Louis Majwala is an inmate who heads the sports department.
“We are confined in one place and we need ways to release stress, sports is one of them. There are many guys who are tal…
Source — Africanews
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Africa
Material conditions
Tunisia
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Business News
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Africa
Material conditions
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso’s security staff in detention centre started Thursday nationwide unlimited strike to demand better working and living conditions, Xinhua reporter witnessed on the spot.
Source — Shangaidaily
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Europe
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Myykola Gnatovskyy, President of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) : “I can say that in several countries, we have seen conditions where persons would not have sufficient living space in a cell, or even had to share beds with other prisoners – something that is very alarmin…
Source — Euronews
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Europe
Health
Suicide
France
Suicide rates in French prisons are almost double the European average.
The latest data from the Council of Europe, in a report published in December 2015, shows that the rate in France was 12.4 suicides per 10,000 inmates in 2013. The median rate across the European Union was 5.4 suicides per 10,0…
Source — Euronews
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Italy
Bollate, a prison near Milan, is unlike any other : it is a model jail that attracts visitors from all over Europe, keen to learn from its policies of rehabilitation and reinsertion into active life. It has workshops, and even stables.
But it is the only one of its kind in Italy. The national situa…
Source — Euronews
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Life imprisonment
Investigations
Long-term prisoners
IN 1981, at the height of the debate on the abolition of the death penalty in France, philosopher Michel Foucault had this warning: “The real divide between criminal justice systems is not between those that include the death penalty and the others; it is between those that allow irreversible sente…
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Overcrowding
Romania
Romania will have to pay close to EUR 100,000 compensations to 18 convicted inmates who have served prison sentences or are currently incarcerated because of the poor detention conditions in local prisons, following a decision by the European Court of Human Rights – ECHR in Strasbourg.
Source — Romania Insider
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Africa
Cameroon
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Camer.be
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Women
Europe
Croatia
Marina Paulenka’s The Other Home is an ode to Požega Penitentiary; Croatia’s only women’s prison. The Zagreb-based photographer discusses a project that seeks to question “the notions of freedom inside and outside supervisory institution’s architecture.”
Source — British Journal of Photography
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Health
United States
Human Right Watch (HRW) a reccueilli les témoignages d’anciens détenus précedemment incarcérés dans des prisons de la Louisiane (sud des États-Unis), sur la dangereuse absence de soins en matière de VIH.
HRW a publié à ce sujet un rapport émettant plusieurs recommandations afin de réformer ce systè…
Source — News 360
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Europe
Health
Mental health
France
Detention Conditions, Lack of Treatment Increase Suffering —
Thousands of men and women with psychosocial disabilities in French prisons are at risk of suicide or harming themselves because of the neglect of their physical and mental health, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
Source — Human Right Watch
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Pre-trial detention
Central America and the Caribbean
Overcrowding
Haiti
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Le Nouvelliste
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Africa
Health
Côte d’Ivoire
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Le Monde Diplomatique
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