June 2016
Europe
Overcrowding
France
La prison de La Farlède a été paralysée ce mercredi matin par un mouvement de colère des agents pénitentiaires. À l’appel de trois syndicats, Ufap, FO et CFDT, plusieurs dizaines de surveillants ont tenu une barricade qui bloquait l’accès au centre pénitentiaire.
Les manifestants dénoncent une surp…
Source — Var Matin
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Central America and the Caribbean
Torture
Violence
Mexico
Amnesty International has published a chilling dispatch dated 28 June 2016. One hundred female detainees, interrogated by the NGO, have reported being subjected to torture, sexual abuse or other acts of aggression by police officers eager to obtain confessions in order to inflate the numbers of the…
Source — Amnesty International
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Africa
Overcrowding
Madagascar
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Midi Madagasikara
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Africa
Uganda
Children aged 12 - 18, who find themselves on the wrong side of the law, committing crimes that require more than just a caution, are detained in one of six remand homes gazetted for that purpose.
If awaiting trial, the offending children are placed in Fort Portal, Gulu, Mbale, Masindi, Arua, or Na…
Source — Allafrica
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Prisons of Madagascar
Portfolio
Africa
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Madagascar
“Overcrowding, the stench of urine as soon as you cross the threshold, rats and vermin everywhere…” Virginie de Galzain
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Health
United States
In February, The Nation reported that at least 38 men died in the BOP’s privately run prisons from 1998 to 2014 in the wake of inadequate medical care. An examination of thousands of pages of previously unreleased files revealed that gravely ill prisoners had been left untreated, or relegated to th…
Source — The Nation
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Africa
Burundi
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Libération
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South America
Colombia
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.
Source — El Colombiano
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Culture
Death penalty
Singapore
Un jeune gardien de prison, Aiman, est amené, par les circonstances, à devenir l’assistant de celui qui s’occupe des exécutions capitales. A la fois hanté par son passé et fasciné par la nouvelle figure paternelle qu’incarne le bourreau, il va lui-même, petit à petit, être absorbé par une tâche, à…
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