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March 18, 2020

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Coronavirus: Prison Fever

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What measures are taken to guarantee the safety of all prisoners and prison staff? What are the consequences of the pandemic on the living conditions in prisons? Here is an overview. — Update 14/09/20 Read more

September 22, 2020

Liban: plus de 200 cas de covid-19 dans la principale prison du pays

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September 22, 2020

Ouganda: vaste chasse à l'homme pour retrouver 200 prisonniers échappés

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September 18, 2020

Estados Unidos: informes profundamente alarmantes sobre esterilización forzosa de mujeres detenidas por el ICE

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September 18, 2020

Turquie: l’écrivain Ahmet Altan entame sa cinquième année en prison en Turquie

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September 18, 2020

Liban : le documentaire qui met le pays face à lui-même

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September 18, 2020

Kenya: the dehumanisation and exploitation of inmates in state prisons

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Kenyan prisons today carry the DNA of their forebears – the colonial prisons and Mau Mau detention camps. They are about brutalising prisoners into submission and scaring the rest of society into compliance with the state. And like their colonial predecessors, they are also sites of forced labour.

Source — The Elephant

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September 18, 2020

Venezuela: deaths inside prisons doubled during pandemic

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Inmate deaths have doubled in Venezuela’s jails during the coronavirus pandemic, a crisis that underscores how the country’s anarchic prisons foment violence and spread disease. Between March and August of 2020, 287 prisoners died in prisons and police holding cells, a jump from the 137 during the same…

Source — InSight Crime

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September 18, 2020

Iran: situation of women

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The situation of women in Ahvaz Sepidar prison is extremely critical. Endless torture and harassment, along with the Coronavirus outbreak, coupled with continuous water and electricity cuts, and the lack of minimum cooling equipment, have made the situation excruciating for female prisoners, especially…

Source — NCRI

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September 17, 2020

France : suicides en prison

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September 15, 2020

Biélorussie : les protestataires libérés racontent les tortures en prison

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September 15, 2020

France: Eric Dupond-Moretti annonce un budget 2021 "exceptionnel" pour la justice

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September 15, 2020

Nicaragua: mujeres trans hablan desde las prisiones durante la COVID-19

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September 15, 2020

México: las otras pandemias en las cárceles

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September 14, 2020

El Salvador: "son criminales y no están con este gobierno"

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September 14, 2020

España: el gobierno vasco urge a "adaptar la política penitenciaria a la realidad actual"

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September 14, 2020

United States: the expensive burden of parole, probation unjustly places people in a second prison

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When President Donald Trump commuted Alice Marie Johnson’s life sentence in 2018, many observers assumed that the grandmother was fully free. What they didn’t realize at the time was that Johnson, who was convicted of a first-time, nonviolent drug offense, still wore the “invisible shackle” of probation.

Source — USA today

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September 14, 2020

United Kingdom: teenage killers could spend rest of their lives in prison after "life means life" shake-up

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The government is planning to lower the age at which murderers can be jailed for life without parole from 21 to 18.

Source — Sky news

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September 14, 2020

United States: can Kentucky keep charging prisoners for their jail stay if they are found not guilty?

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Kentucky State law allows county jails to charge prisoners a daily fee during their stay while fighting their case. But what happens when the person is found not guilty of the charges and gets released? According to a February 14, 2020 ruling by the Kentucky Court of Appeals, even if the state throws…

Source — Prison Legal News

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September 14, 2020

Prisons and jails are rolling back free phone and video calls. They should be extending them instead

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Amidst a pandemic and recession, policymakers should be fighting for extended — if not permanent — financial relief for incarcerated people and their families.

Source — Prison Policy Initiative

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September 14, 2020

United States: Missouri attorney general's office pushes to keep innocent people in prison

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Its decades-long commitment to upholding convictions—even those marred by police or prosecutorial misconduct—has left Missourians languishing in prison for years.

Source — The Appeal

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September 14, 2020

France : à quand un nouveau contrôleur général des lieux de privation de liberté ?

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September 2, 2020

Thailand bets on prisons to boost tourism

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Thailand plans to turn about half its prisons into tourist attractions to boost visitor numbers as the Southeast Asian nation struggles to recover from an economic slump caused by the coronavirus outbreak.

Source — Jakarta Post

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July 30, 2020

France: punaises de lit, moisissures, surpopulation, le calvaire à la prison de Perpignan

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