December 2025
Africa
Women
Minors
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Rehabilitation
Zimbabwe
Twenty-four babies are currently living at Chikurubi Female Prison, the highest number recorded since the institution was built in 1970.
Women
Europe
Mental health
Violence
United Kingdom
Women’s prisons are so dangerous they are actually “incapable” of adequate reform according to new research which examines recent deaths in the women’s estate.
Africa
Pre-trial detention
Access to legal rights
Justice
South Sudan
Incarcerated people at the Torit Central Prison in Eastern Equatoria State have voiced concerns about exorbitant legal fees, which have left many of them locked up for over five years without trial.
Europe
Health
Mental health
Material conditions
Facilities
Overcrowding
Violence
Ireland
The Irish Prison Service is fighting a “losing battle” against overcrowding, with the current system at “breaking point”, penal reformers have said.
Locking up the opposition
Analysis
Africa
America
Asia
Europe
LGBTQI
Access to legal rights
Justice
Material conditions
Torture
In this long-format article, Prison Insider explores how defending human rights can become a reason for incarceration, in every part of the world.