February 2021
Africa
Access to legal rights
Health
Material conditions
Protest
Guinea
Authorities in Guinea must investigate the deaths of at least four people in detention and end a wave of arrests targeting at least 400 opposition and civil society members.
Central America and the Caribbean
Facilities
Mexico
Mexico’s president will seek better terms for the government in private prison contracts signed by his predecessors, he said on Wednesday, adding that he could cancel them if better deals cannot be reached.
Coronavirus
Central America and the Caribbean
Health
Cuba
The first 100 members of the prison staff at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, have received initial vaccines against the coronavirus, the U.S. military said Tuesday evening, although it declined to say whether any of the 40 wartime prisoners at the detention center were offered or received vaccines.
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Coronavirus
Oceania
Health
Material conditions
Protest
New Zealand
While the protests at Waikeria shine a light on prisoner conditions, abuses of power and inhumane treatment in prison are not new and will continue until prisoner numbers significantly reduce.
Canada : bannir les courtes peines de prison pour éviter des suicides
News
North America
Pre-trial detention
Justice
Mental health
Suicide
Alternatives
Canada
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Kazakhstan : abolition de la peine de mort
News
Asia
Death penalty
Kazakhstan
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Suisse : l'aide au suicide pour les prisonniers envisagée
News
Europe
Access to legal rights
Justice
Mental health
Suicide
Switzerland
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