July 2017
Asia
Europe
Russia
In Russia, running a prison is a business, Olga Romanova writes for the Carnegie Center.
Source — The Moscow Time
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Asia
Europe
Russia
In Russia, running a prison is a business.
The Soviet gulag may have transformed into Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN), but its essence arguably is unchanged.
With 434 prisoners per 100,000 people, Russia has the highest incarceration rate in Europe. It’s 143 in the UK, 101 in France, a…
Source — The Moscow Times
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South America
Peru
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.
Source — Aleteia
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North America
Discipline
United States
Arizona death row inmate Scott Nordstrom lives alone in a room smaller than a parking space. He’s allowed to leave his cell a few times each week to shower or exercise alone in a similarly-sized mesh cage and is forbidden from making physical contact with visitors from the outside.
Source — The Marshall Project
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South America
Venezuela
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.
Source — LaPrensa
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North America
United States
At least $22 million have been devoted to a US international prison program focused mainly on Central American prisons. This program operates out of a web of government offices and programs, most prominently the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) of the US State Dep…
Source — Truth Out
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Cameroun : Amnesty International dénonce le recours à la torture dans la lutte contre Boko Haram
News
Africa
Torture
Cameroon
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Jeune Afrique
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South America
Violence
Argentina
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.
Source — La izquierda diario
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Central America and the Caribbean
Mexico
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.
Source — Ejecentral
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Central America and the Caribbean
Guatemala
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.
Source — La Prensa Grafica
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North America
Mental health
United States
Reports to the Advocacy Center said that disabled people who are incarcerated at David Wade Correctional Center have been beaten, slapped, kicked, stripped of their clothing in the winter and sprayed with mace and bleach. One report to the center said that disabled inmates were made to bark like do…
Source — Mic
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United States
Late one night in October 2015, North Dakota prisons chief Leann Bertsch met Karianne Jackson, one of her deputies, for a drink in a hotel bar in Oslo, Norway. They had just spent an exhausting day touring Halden, the maximum-security facility Time has dubbed “the world’s most humane prison,” yet n…
Source — Mother Jones
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United States
Doubling down on the drug war is likely to result in increased violence, not increased public safety.
Source — The New York Times
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North America
United States
Even though my boss and I didn’t quite get off to the right start, over the years I grew to respect him and see him more as a person and less as a badge. For one, he did not laugh at me when he caught me crying over the loss of my father, because he, too, had recently been in mourning.
In prison, t…
Source — The Marshall Project
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South America
Argentina
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.
Source — El dia
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North America
United States
“Reform” is one of those ambiguous words that mean different things to different people. I think of reform as something that aims to reduce the numbers of Americans who are removed from society and deprived of their freedom, and to do it without making us less safe. In 1972, when I was starting my…
Source — The Marshall Project
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