Pre-trial detention
Connecting Stories Beyond Bars
America
Pre-trial detention
Women
Europe
Long-term prisoners
Access to legal rights
Mental health
Material conditions
Violence
Social ties
‘Connecting Stories Beyond Bars - The invisible impact of prison on relatives’ is a six-episode docuseries produced with Acifad (Argentina), Amparar (Brasil), Relais Famille (Canada), OIP-SF (France), Documenta (Mexico) and POPS (UK).
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Pre-trial detention
Minors
Material conditions
Facilities
Haiti
The Center for the Re-education of Minors in Conflict with the Law (CERMICOL), has been transformed into a tripartite detention center where minors, women, and men, displaced from prisons destroyed by gang violence and increased insecurity, are now housed together.
Africa
Pre-trial detention
Women
Access to legal rights
Material conditions
Social ties
Senegal
Maïmouna Diouf served several years in a women’s prison, found guilty of infanticide, a charge she denies. She says conditions were harsh — dirty mattresses on the floor, a lack of sufficient food and hygiene products.
Africa
Pre-trial detention
Health
Social ties
Eritrea
A well-known Eritrean satirical cartoonist has been freed from prison after spending 15 years in detention without charge, his family and friends have told the BBC.
Pre-trial detention
Women
Asia
Access to legal rights
Overcrowding
Death penalty
Sri Lanka
The emergency has been caused by a lack of adequate facilities and the extensive use of preventive detention pending trial. There are at least 40,000 people in prison on the island in facilities with a total capacity of only 10,500 places.
Pre-trial detention
Asia
Minors
Drugs
Violence
Singapore
The number of young and remand incarcerated people increased in 2025, contributing to a rise in assault incidents, said the Singapore Prison Service (SPS).
Gabon: existing and surviving in prison
Interview
Africa
Pre-trial detention
Access to legal rights
Justice
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Gabon has a particularly high rate of incarceration: 226 people are imprisoned per 100,000 inhabitants. Overcrowding is a flagrant issue, and the living conditions are considered extremely concerning. SOS Prisonniers Gabon provides an overview.
America
Pre-trial detention
Women
Mental health
Drugs
Overcrowding
Argentina
Prison population grew 7.1% in 2024, with property crimes and short sentences driving overcrowding; five provinces exceed the national incarceration average, authorities warn that tougher laws and short sentences are fuelling sustained rise in numbers.
Africa
Pre-trial detention
Access to legal rights
Overcrowding
Nigeria
Fresh questions are being raised about Nigeria’s prison pardon and decongestion process following a recent exercise by the Lagos State Judiciary, as lawyers point to missing incarcerated people files, unexplained inclusions and exclusions, and allegations of irregular influence.
Pre-trial detention
Women
Asia
Access to legal rights
China
A jailed activist has lost a judicial review against a Hong Kong Correctional Services Department (CSD) rule that prohibits incarcerated women from wearing shorts in summer.
North America
Pre-trial detention
Women
Mental health
Drugs
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Canada
Ontario jails are heading toward a record year for overcrowding, remand populations and lockdowns just as politicians debate bail reforms that could lead to a further influx of accused behind bars, data analyzed by CBC News reveals.
Africa
Pre-trial detention
Access to legal rights
Justice
South Sudan
Incarcerated people at the Torit Central Prison in Eastern Equatoria State have voiced concerns about exorbitant legal fees, which have left many of them locked up for over five years without trial.
Pre-trial detention
Asia
Europe
Health
Overcrowding
Armenia
Human rights activists blamed the Armenian law-enforcement and health authorities for a near doubling of incarcerated people deaths at the country’s prisons recorded this year.
Pre-trial detention
Women
Asia
LGBTQI
Overcrowding
India
More than half a million Indians are in prisons across the country, three in four of them are undertrials, of whom nearly half are aged between 18 and 30 years.
Central America and the Caribbean
Pre-trial detention
Access to legal rights
Health
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Haiti
The Association of Volunteers for the Reintegration of Prisoners visited the Cap-Haïtien prison. The findings are alarming and reflect a detention situation marked by a severe deterioration of both human and material conditions.
Pre-trial detention
Middle East
Health
Mental health
Torture
A Kurdish prisoner held in Iran for over two years is in critical condition after authorities denied him medical treatment following torture, a human rights group said.
Côte d'Ivoire: prisons in 2025
Analysis
Africa
Pre-trial detention
Women
Minors
Foreign prisoners
LGBTQI
Long-term prisoners
Mental health
Material conditions
Facilities
Suicide
Torture
Activities
Social ties
Alternatives
Work
Côte d’Ivoire
All there is to know about Ivorian prisons in 2025. Key figures, life in detention, references: discover all the data gathered by Prison Insider.
Pre-trial detention
Women
Europe
Minors
Foreign prisoners
LGBTQI
Access to legal rights
Overcrowding
Turkey
The number of incarcerated people in Türkiye’s prisons has reached 420,904. This marks a sevenfold increase from the 59,429 recorded in 2002, the year the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power.
Pre-trial detention
Europe
Justice
Overcrowding
Ireland
Data on the accommodation of people on remand in prison, shows that 84 unconvicted men in Cork were sharing cells with convicted ones on one day last month.