January 2019
France: a scenario written in advance
Testimonial
Europe
Long-term prisoners
Rehabilitation
France
Roland spent 15 years in prison. He looks back on his journey for Prison Insider
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France: on parole, but still in prison
Testimonial
Europe
Switzerland
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Allez savoir !
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Europe
Protest
France
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — France Info
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Africa
Justice
Torture
Violence
Togo
The opposition parties and the Togolese civil society have been mobilised since the month of August in 2017 to denounce the corruption, social injustice, and human rights violations committed by those in positions of authority.
After a year of observation, the Associations Against Impunity Collecti…
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Europe
France
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Le télégramme
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Africa
Material conditions
Mali
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Source — Mali actu
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South America
Violence
Brazil
Just one day after his inauguration, Brazil’s right-wing populist President Jair Bolsonaro faced his first public-security crisis. On Jan. 2, prison gangs launched a terrorism campaign throughout Ceara state, paralyzing the capital city, Fortaleza. Although he has deployed federal troops, violence…
Source — The washington post
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Oceania
New Zealand
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) last week handed over its decade-long prison support programme aimed at improving prison management, infrastructure rehabilitation, food supply chain management and treatment of detained mental health patients, to the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correcti…
Source — News Day
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Europe
Spain
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Source — El País
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Central America and the Caribbean
Ecuador
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Source — Expreso ec.
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United States: ‘You’re going to let me die from this’, prisoners fight to access a hepatitis-C cure
News
Health
United States
Inmates are being denied treatment, and it’s creating an epidemic.
Source — The Nation
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Women
LGBTI
United States
For the first time in the state, a transgender inmate has been moved from an all-male prison to the state women’s prison, MCI-Framingham (above) to be housed according to her gender identity.
Source — The boston globe
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Europe
Overcrowding
Belgium
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Source — La Libre
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Death penalty
Violence
Worldwide, there are 20,000 people sentenced to death. They are detained in countries that still use the death penalty like China, Iran, the United States, Japan, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. Others are detained in countries that no longer use the death penalty, for instance Mauritania. These prison…
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Central America and the Caribbean
Mexico
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Source — Imagen del Golfo
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South America
Colombia
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Source — Caracol
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South America
Argentina
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Source — Perfil
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