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Pakistan: prison reform needed

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Coronavirus Pre-trial detention Asia Access to legal rights Justice Overcrowding Social ties Alternatives Pakistan
A joint report by Amnesty International and the Justice Project Pakistan, Prisoners of the Pandemic─ The Right To Health, notes that the reduction of overcrowding in prisons during the first wave of the coronavirus epidemic was not undertaken, even the second wave was now upon us, and there was a r…

Source — Pakistan today

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United States: new documentary released on forced sterilizations of female prisoners

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North America Women Access to legal rights Justice Health Torture Violence United States
The “freedom-loving” U.S. has been practicing the forced sterilization of its least desirable citizens since the early twentieth century. It is conservatively estimated that over 60,000 American citizens suffered this procedure until it was supposedly abolished little by little, state by state, in…

Source — Prison Legal News

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United States: trans inmate wins federal case to get gender affirming surgery

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North America Women LGBTI Access to legal rights Justice United States
Nicole Rose Campbell was diagnosed with gender dysphoria prior to going to Racine Correctional Institute, a medium-security men’s state prison in Wisconsin. She was “permitted to receive hormone treatments, counseling, and even allowed to wear some women’s clothing” since starting her sentence, but…

Source — LGBTQ Nation

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India: from segregation to labour, Manu’s caste law governs the prison system

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Culture Women Asia Access to legal rights Justice Religion Work India
Caste-based labour, in fact, is sanctioned in the prison manuals of many states. The colonial texts of the late 19th century have barely seen any amendments, and caste-based labour remains an untouched part of these manuals. While every state has its own unique prison manual, they are mostly based…

Source — The Wire

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France : indignité des conditions de détention et pressions subies par un détenu de la prison de Nanterre. Le Conseil d'Etat tacle l'administration.

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Europe Access to legal rights Justice Health Material conditions France

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Turquía: nueva resolución sobre Osman Kavala deja claro que debe ser excarcelado de inmediato

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Pre-trial detention Middle East Access to legal rights Justice Turkey

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Irán: seis hombres en peligro inminente de que les amputen los dedos tras juicios injustos y tortura

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Middle East Access to legal rights Justice Death penalty Torture Violence Iran

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Egipto: estremecedor aumento de las ejecuciones revela profunda crisis de derechos humanos

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Africa Access to legal rights Justice Health Death penalty Torture Violence Egypt

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Yémen : Le Drian interpelé sur une ex-usine de Total utilisée comme prison

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Europe Middle East Torture Violence Yemen

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France : en Bretagne, des protections gratuites dans les prisons contre la précarité menstruelle

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Culture Women Europe Access to legal rights Justice Health Material conditions France

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France : "le "Guide du prisonnier", un concentré pédagogique du droit pénitentiaire"

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Europe Access to legal rights France

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Belgique : "on est revenu en pleine seconde vague à un taux de surpopulation assez élevé"

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Coronavirus Culture Europe Access to legal rights Discipline Justice Health Mental health Overcrowding Activities Social ties Belgium

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Belgique : les visites reprennent en prison… sous forme limitée

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Europe Social ties Belgium

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United States: prisons are Covid-19 hotbeds. When should inmates get the vaccine?

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Coronavirus North America Health Overcrowding United States
They live in crowded conditions, sharing bathrooms and eating facilities where social distancing is impossible. They have high rates of asthma, diabetes and heart disease. Many struggle with mental illness. A disproportionate number are Black and Hispanic, members of minority communities that have…

Source — The New York Times

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United States: reproductive justice prison system

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North America Women Access to legal rights Health Mental health Material conditions Violence Social ties United States
The United States imprisons the most women in the world. Across the United States, approximately 200,000 women are incarcerated—nearly an 800 percent increase since 1980. Women of color are disproportionately affected by the criminal justice system. In 2017, twice as many Black women and 1.3 times…

Source — New Security Beat

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India: NCRB to include transpersons as separate category in prison statistics, Delhi HC told

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The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has agreed to include transgender as a separate category in the gender classification of prisoners in their annual publication of prison statistics 2020, it informed the Delhi High Court on Monday. Additional Solicitor General Chetan Sharma told a Division B…

Source — Times now

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Sri Lanka: Amnesty International calls for thorough, impartial probe into prison deaths

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Amnesty International has called for a thorough and impartial investigation into the deaths of at least 11 inmates in a prison riot in Sri Lanka and asked the authorities to implement their commitments to release hundreds of detainees to ease overcrowding and improve conditions in the country’s jai…

Source — The Week

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United Kingdom: investing in yet more prison places is not the way to cut crime

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With the dismaying announcement that the government plans to fund 18,000 more prison places by 2026, we are forced to ask, once again, why crime prevention fails to get the same emphasis as punishment. Last Wednesday, the chancellor announced more than £4bn in capital funding – spread over four yea…

Source — The Guardian

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United Kingdom: Howard League exposes injustice of prison disciplinary system

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Figures show that the number of formal hearings has risen to a record high. In a new briefing, the charity explores how rule-breaking in prisons in England and Wales is managed through formal disciplinary hearings, known as adjudications, where prisoners can be given punishments including solitary…

Source — Ekklesia

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United States: think private prison companies are going away under Biden? They have other plans

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For the second time in four years, fears that a Democrat would be elected president sent private prison stocks plummeting earlier this month. To the casual observer, the prospect of President-elect Joe Biden—who promised to “stop corporations from profiteering from incarceration”—presented an exist…

Source — The Marshall project

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United States: no escape, the trauma of witnessing violence in prison

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North America Mental health Violence Rehabilitation United States
Early this year — before COVID-19 began to tear through U.S. prisons — five people were killed in Mississippi state prisons over the course of one week. A civil rights lawyer reported in February that he was receiving 30 to 60 letters each week describing pervasive “beatings, stabbings, denial of m…

Source — Prison policy

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Mexico: prisons, the permanent war of Covid-19

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Coronavirus Access to legal rights Health Material conditions Overcrowding Social ties Mexico
“Fighting for the law, against the penitentiary system, it’s like fighting a monster.” Decided of her conviction is the wife of an incarcerated person currently confined in Centro Varonil de Seguridad Penitenciaria I (CEVASEP I), just north of Mexico City. Her husband, falsely accused of kidnaping,…

Source — Open democracy

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