May 2018
Europe
Belgium
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Les Echos
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United States
I spent the last four months teaching Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel Les Misérables at a maximum-security prison in New Jersey.
Source — Popular Resistance
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South America
Peru
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.
Source — El Comercio
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Central America and the Caribbean
Guatemala
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Source — Publinews
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Europe
Violence
France
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Source — BFM TV
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Religion
United States
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Source — Tribune de Genève
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Europe
Drugs
Material conditions
France
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Source — Les Inrockuptibles
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Denmark
Denmark has pursued increasingly restrictive immigration and asylum policies. Observers have repeatedly criticised the penitentiary-like conditions of Denmark’s main immigration detention centre as well as inadequate efforts to identify victims of torture, who can be subject to detention.
Source — Relief web
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United Kingdom
David Gauke launches strategy to improve prisoners’ work skills and prospects.
Source — The Guardian
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Ukraine: the roof is leaking
Analysis
Report
A monitoring team led by the representative of the Commissioner on the implementation of the national preventive mechanism, Vyacheslav Petlyovaniy, together with director of “Ukraine without torture” Aleksand Hatiyatullin, visited the Bucha Penitentiary Institution (N° 85) on 3 April 2018.
Colony N°85,…
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Health
Mental health
Ireland
Percentage of prison population with mental illness more than doubled since 2015.
Source — Irish Times
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Asia
Europe
Torture
Russia
The trial is practically unprecedented in Russia - torture and even the murder of detainees is a common pheonomenon.
Source — JAMnews
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Italy: challenges ahead
Report
Pre-trial detention
Europe
Foreign prisoners
Health
Overcrowding
Activities
Italy
– Published 25 May 2018.
Antigone has been advocating for a long time to urge the Government to reform the penitentiary system.
A law was supposed to bring significant changes, such as:
Equalization of psychiatric diseases to physical diseases with the aim of providing an adequate medical and juridical…
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