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June 21, 2017

Thailand: Phuket juveniles riot as ‘teen kingpins’ moved to prison

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Asia Thailand

Officers at the centre, located on Sakdidet Rd, called for backup at about 4pm after they found they could not contain the youths, who were smashing windows and tearing apart the dormitory and other areas in the youth detention facility. Phuket City Police led by Deputy Commander Lt Col Nikorn Chut…

June 21, 2017

United Kingdom: new probation services failing to improve re-offending rates, report finds

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United Kingdom

A key plank of controversial probation reforms shows no sign of improving re-offending rates and could be ditched immediately with little impact being felt, a highly critical report concludes. So-called Through the Gate services were introduced as part of a partial privatisation in 2015 to bridge t…

June 21, 2017

Ireland: prisoner numbers down as more get community service instead of jail

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Ireland

The number of people being committed to prison has plummeted after measures requiring judges to consider community services as an alternative to a jail term.

June 21, 2017

United States: lawyers contest constitutionality of Nebraska death penalty

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America North America United States

Attorneys for an inmate accused of strangling his cellmate have asked a judge to declare Nebraska’s death penalty unconstitutional. Concerns over the recently reinstated capital punishment that was repealed in 2015 are among the 11 arguments in a motion filed Monday by Todd Lancaster and Sarah Newe…

June 21, 2017

United Kingdom: ex-prisoners will receive support to start their own businesses with a new fund

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United Kingdom

James Furber, the high sheriff of Greater London, has thrown his weight behind a new fund that aims to help people leaving prison become entrepreneurs. The programme will provide inmates with peer and professional mentors who will assist them with business planning and personal development.

June 21, 2017

Australia: most difficult prisoners mentoring most vulnerable in trial programme

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Oceania Australia

Matthew Taylor is the first to admit he wasn’t a model prisoner during his time behind bars at Canberra’s Alexander Maconochie Centre. “I was getting into a lot of trouble in here, fighting with officers, fighting with other detainees, using ice a lot and I got to the point where I was going to kil…

June 21, 2017

Bali escape: prisoners not found in waterlogged tunnel out of Kerobokan, police say

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Indonesia

Police have confirmed no prisoners have been found in a tunnel that is believed to be have been used by four escapee inmates at the Kerobokan jail. There had been fears that the men, including one Australian, may be stuck inside the muddied hole which had filled with water.

June 20, 2017

'Buried alive': the old men stuck in Britain’s prisons

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United Kingdom

They can’t manage the stairs, so they can’t exercise, or go to classes. They’re afraid to shower in case they fall. The ones with dementia don’t even know where they are. Is this any way to deal with elderly offenders?

June 20, 2017

France, prison de Perpignan : encore des surveillants de prison agressés par un détenu

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Europe Protest Violence France

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June 20, 2017

China: Around 120,000 given over five years in prison for drug crimes since 2012

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Asia Drugs China

Nearly 120,000 criminals charged with drug offences were handed sentences longer than five years by Chinese courts in the last five years, data released by the nation’s top court Tuesday shows.

June 20, 2017

United States: Alaska officials work to reform solitary confinement system

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America North America Discipline United States

“Segregation is known to be psychologically detrimental to those who are in there for any length of time,” Bruce Busby, the state department’s director of institutions said.

June 20, 2017

Indonésie : quatre étrangers s'évadent d'une prison de Bali au moyen d'un tunnel

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Asia Indonesia

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June 20, 2017

United Kingdom: 'buried alive': the old men stuck in Britain’s prisons

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United Kingdom

Dave was 13 when he got his first custodial sentence. It was 1962 and he had been caught stealing from cars. That sentence was followed by others: he can’t quite remember how many. Gamely, he tried to count them: “I think it was 14 or 15,” he finally offered. He wasn’t always put away – at least se…

June 20, 2017

Indonesia cracks down on terrorism with new laws and joint patrols

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Asia Justice Indonesia

Jakarta: Indonesians who join terrorist groups overseas will face a maximum 15 years’ jail under new anti-terrorism laws expected to be passed by September. The new laws will enable authorities to crack down on Indonesians who return after fighting with the Islamic State in Syria or the Philippine…

June 20, 2017

China: police-run detention centres are a 'human rights disaster': rights lawyers

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Asia Justice Torture China

Recent proposals to reform China’s police-run detention centers are unlikely to do much to address a nationwide “human rights disaster” for police suspects in detention, human rights lawyers told RFA. The country’s Ministry of Public Security issued a call for consultation this week on a replacemen…

June 20, 2017

Kuwait: the country grants amnesty to Ethiopians prisoners

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Africa Middle East Kuwait

Amir of the State of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah has granted amnesty for Ethiopians convicted of various judicial sentences and currently in prison in that country, Ethiopia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday in a statement.

June 20, 2017

China : Draft law on detention centers won’t help reduce police torture, critics say

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Asia Torture China

Source - Caixin Global A draft of China’s first-ever law on criminal detention centers calls for better access to bail and medical care for detainees, but legal experts say it will have a limited impact on reducing police torture.

June 20, 2017

Canada: l’isolement dans les prisons canadiennes sera limité à 15 jours

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America North America Discipline Canada

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June 19, 2017

Nepal: women in jail

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Women Asia Nepal

A woman from Palpa is currently serving her term at the Central Jail in Sundhara, Kathmandu for killing her own child. She is mentally disturbed. “She had beaten her child for playing with water. How could a mother kill her own child? Fate locked her up,” said a fellow inmate at the jail. “I myself…

June 19, 2017

Ukraine: anti-torture committee concerned about police ill-treatment and poor conditions of detention of remand and life-sentenced prisoners

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Europe Torture Ukraine

In the report on its November 2016 visit to Ukraine, published today, the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) expresses serious concern about the frequency of allegations of ill-treatment by police officers (such as slap…

June 19, 2017

Canada: liberal government to impose 15-day limits on solitary confinement

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America North America Discipline Canada

Nearly a decade after teenager Ashley Smith died by self-strangulation in a solitary confinement cell, the Liberal government has introduced a bill that would place new restrictions on indefinite solitary confinement in federal prisons but falls short of the expectations of some prison-rights advoc…

June 19, 2017

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Laure Tixier presents a series of black abstract shapes, a collection of plans of prisons from all over the world

June 18, 2017

Sudan: thirst, poor food in South Darfur prison

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Material conditions Sudan

Inmates of the Korea Prison, south of Nyala, capital of South Darfur, reportedly suffer from thirst and poor services, especially meals, during the fasting month of Ramadan.

June 18, 2017

Sudan: thirst, poor food in South Darfur prison

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Material conditions Sudan

Inmates of the Korea Prison, south of Nyala, capital of South Darfur, reportedly suffer from thirst and poor services, especially meals, during the fasting month of Ramadan.