March 2017
Europe
Health
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France
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United States
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Africa
Cameroon
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Africa
Cameroon
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Europe
France
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Source — Le Figaro
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Central America and the Caribbean
Protest
Violence
Mexico
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Europe
Social ties
France
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Source — Vice
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Central America and the Caribbean
Haiti
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Source — Le Monde
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Violence
United States
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Source — Sciences et Avenir
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South America
Colombia
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Europe
Hungary
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Africa
Material conditions
Chad
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Source — Alwihda
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Africa
Protest
Chad
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Central America and the Caribbean
Haiti
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Africa
Material conditions
Congo - Kinshasa
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Africa
Congo - Kinshasa
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Read moreUse and over-use of imprisonment worldwide
Analysis
Report
Across much of the world, recent decades have seen rapid and unrelenting growth in the use of imprisonment as a response to crime and social disorder.
Today, well over 10 million people are imprisoned worldwide. Jurisdictions that have seen the fastest growth in prisoner numbers include the United…
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Annual penal statistics
Analysis
Report
Europe
Justice
Overcrowding
On 1st September 2015, there were 1 404 398 inmates held in penal institutions across Europe. On the same date in 2014, there were 1 507 278 inmates (for the exactly same prison administrations and, in 2013 there were 1 529 447 inmates. The total number of inmates has been decreasing.
The median pr…
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