September 2018
Women
Europe
United Kingdom
Women make up just under 5% of the prison population in England and Wales, yet they are more likely than men to reoffend. Why doesn’t prison work for women and what is being done to improve outcomes for them?
“The last day, I was given a bin bag of my stuff. The door closed behind me, and it was ov…
Source — BBC
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Europe
France
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Source — OIP-SF
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Africa
Côte d’Ivoire
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Source — Slate Afrique
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United Kingdom
Strikes by prisoners and officers in the UK and US highlight how the failing prison system demeans us all.
The last couple of months have been a crucial time for the prison system. The mass walkout by prison officers in England and Wales a fortnight ago, which was quickly called off by the Prison O…
Source — The Guardian
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United States
Before founding the Corrections Corporation of America, a $1.8 billion private prison corporation now known as CoreCivic, Terrell Don Hutto ran a cotton plantation the size of Manhattan. There, mostly black convicts were forced to pick cotton from dawn to dusk for no pay. It was 1967 and the Beatle…
Source — Time
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Europe
Discipline
Facilities
France
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Source — RFI
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Europe
France
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Source — Midi Libre
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Europe
Health
Suicide
Violence
France
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Source — Bastamag
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Europe
Overcrowding
France
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Source — Cnews
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Africa
Protest
Congo - Kinshasa
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Source — Actualités.cd
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Asia
Myanmar (Burma)
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Source — BFMTV
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Europe
Violence
France
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Source — Le Républicain Lorrain
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Protest
United States
Over the last few weeks men and women across the United States – and even as far away as Nova Scotia, Canada – have protested to demand humane treatment for the incarcerated.
Source — The Conversation
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Europe
Overcrowding
France
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Source — Le Huffington Post
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Europe
Overcrowding
France
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Source — Ouest France
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