Information, topic by topic, on prisons across the world

May 8, 2018

USA: remembering Japanese-American incarceration during WWII

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Culture United States

As part of its mission to bear witness to the lessons of history and to remember victims of persecution, Music of Remembrance has commissioned a new musical work about the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II by Seattle composer Christophe Chagnard.

May 7, 2018

USA: mass incarceration no more?

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United States

There’s good news on a subject usually associated with the social ills of the United States: incarceration. According to newly released Justice Department statistics, the prison population fell 1.4 percent in 2016, to 1,505,000.

May 4, 2018

États-Unis : l’incarcération de masse des hommes noirs dénoncée dans une série photo

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United States

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May 3, 2018

USA: a transgender inmate says she was raped in a 'discriminatory and dangerous' Colorado men's prison

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LGBTQI United States

A transgender inmate who is suing Colorado’s corrections agency says she was raped at a men’s prison hours after a federal judge denied her request to block the prison from keeping her in a disciplinary unit, according to court records and the woman’s attorney.

May 1, 2018

Aux Etats-Unis, la "gay panic" permet toujours d'éviter la prison pour le meurtre d'un homosexuel

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Justice United States

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April 30, 2018

USA: women in prison take home economics, while men take carpentry

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Women United States

Decades after a government report on deep inequity in the vocational offerings of the nation’s criminal-justice system, little has changed.

April 26, 2018

United States of America : staying awake while doing time

Testimonial

United States

“*We believe that life is happening anywhere but here.”* Robert Lee Allen is imprisoned in the state of Michigan. Here is his testimonial.

April 25, 2018

USA: female incarceration reveals a cruel and broken justice system

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Women United States

Although boys are disproportionately represented in juvenile and criminal proceedings, girls are the fastest-growing segment of the juvenile population and are often in the system for reasons very different from boys. A groundbreaking report released in 2015 unearthed a “sexual abuse to prison pipe…

April 24, 2018

USA: the première of “O.G.,” the film made inside an Indiana Prison

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Culture United States

The film “O.G.,” set and shot in a prison in Indiana, using inmates and guards as cast and crew, had its première on Friday night, as part of the Tribeca Film Festival

April 23, 2018

USA: 1 dead and 11 treated for overdoses at Northern California prison

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Drugs United States

Suspected drug overdoses at a Northern California prison over the weekend left one inmate dead and sent 11 others for treatment, authorities said Monday.

April 22, 2018

États-Unis : prison, chiffres

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United States

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April 22, 2018

USA : un système carcéral violent et inégalitaire

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Torture Violence United States

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April 20, 2018

USA: is rural America getting tired of tough-on-crime policies?

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United States

Across political, racial, and geographic lines, more Americans seem ready to move past the age of mass incarceration.

April 16, 2018

USA: sept morts, 17 blessés dans une mutinerie dans une prison

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Protest Violence United States

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April 16, 2018

USA: locked up and vulnerable, when prison makes things worse

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United States

Many incarcerated women are victims themselves – of mental health problems, and of crimes worse than their own. Is prison the wrong place for them?

April 10, 2018

USA: solitary confinement of mentally ill persists in Oregon prison

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Discipline Mental health United States

The more than three dozen men incarcerated in the behavioral health unit at the Oregon State Penitentiary spend almost 23 hours a day confined to a dark, small cell — a practice akin to “torture,” according to disability rights leaders.

April 9, 2018

USA: video visitation system fails at Virginia Beach jail, preventing visits for more than a week

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Social ties United States

Virginia Beach’s jail replaced face-to-face visits between inmates and their family and friends with a video visitation system in 2005. The system, however, has become increasingly unreliable and will be replaced with a new web-based one that no longer will require visitors to come to the facility.

April 9, 2018

Of Lengths and Measures

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America North America Facilities United States

Stephen Tourlentes began to notice prisons, especially after dark, when they broadcast their location through the use of surveillance and lighting. He spent 17 years visiting these detention facilities after dark.

April 6, 2018

USA: Washington State Penitentiary releases official count of inmates on hunger strike

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United States

Penitentiary Spokeswoman Allison Window told the publication that about 1,315 inmates in six housing units were refusing their meals.

April 3, 2018

USA: inside a private prison, blood, suicide and poorly paid guards

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Suicide Violence United States

JACKSON, Miss. — On the witness stand and under pressure, Frank Shaw, the warden of the East Mississippi Correctional Facility, could not guarantee that the prison was capable of performing its most basic function.

April 3, 2018

Story Of Earl Reinhardt

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America North America Long-term prisoners Health Rehabilitation United States

Sarah Bones meets Earl, who has spent the past 50 of his 75 years behind bars.

March 31, 2018

USA: a 'hellish world', the mental health crisis overwhelming America's prisons

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Health Mental health United States

In America, jails and prisons have become the nation’s de facto mental healthcare providers – and the results are chilling

March 28, 2018

United States: let's imagine a national organizing effort to challenge mass incarceration

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America North America United States

This story is the seventh in Truthout’s “Visions of 2018” series, in which activist leaders answer the question: “What would you like to see created, built, imagined or begun this year?” Each piece will focus on a bold idea for transformation, to give us fuel as the year moves forward.

March 27, 2018

USA: Arizona prisons boss blames contractor for problems with inmate care

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Health United States

Arizona Corrections Director Charles Ryan took the witness stand at a hearing Tuesday and blamed a medical services contractor for the state’s failure to follow through on all its promises to improve inmate care.