February 2017
Asia
Thailand
Prison conditions contravene UN treaties barring torture and stipulating minimum prisoner rights, group says.
Thailand’s prisons fail to meet international standards with inmates routinely shackled, beaten, and stuffed into overcrowded cells, an international human rights group said.
Thailand also…
Source — Aljazeera
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Asia
Thailand
Paris, Bangkok - Thailand’s ongoing failure to enact comprehensive prison reforms has created conditions for human rights violations to be rife in its prison system, FIDH and UCL said in a new report published today. The report, titled “Behind the walls – A look at prison conditions in Thailand aft…
Source — FIDH
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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 Heraldo
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Europe
Justice
Facilities
France
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Source — RTL
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Material conditions
United States
The 284 women housed in C-dorm at Gadsden Correctional Institution in Quincy lived for months without hot water or heat, faced flooded bathrooms daily and endured water rations when the septic tanks were jammed with food waste.
Source — Orlando Sentinel
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Europe
Protest
Belgium
This article is not available in English. If you wish you can consult the French version.
Source — L'Express
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North America
Discipline
Canada
Canada’s family doctors are calling for an all-out ban on the use of solitary confinement in Canadian prisons.
Source — The Globe and Mail
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Protest
Belgium
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Source — France 3
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Dominican Republic
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — 20 Minutes
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Long-term prisoners
United Kingdom
Scotland’s worst criminals would die in jail under plans for whole-life sentences to be examined by MSPs.
Source — The Sunday Herald
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Material conditions
Overcrowding
Turkey
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Source — Daily News
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Brazil
Shortly after midnight on New Year’s Eve, hundreds of inmates watched from a Manaus prison yard as the sky lit up with fireworks, paid for by the gangs that dominate the jail system.
The revelry continued well into the next day, and inmates celebrated with their wives and girlfriends. But then the…
Source — Associated Press
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Asia
Overcrowding
Cambodia
Cambodia’s already swollen prison population leapt by more than 20 percent last year, according to the Ministry of Interior’s annual report, which acknowledged the influx has caused “serious challenges” with overcrowding, and revealed one-third of inmates are in pre-trial detention.
Source — The Phnom Penh Post
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