Information, topic by topic, on prisons across the world

November 4, 2019

Kenya : criminal justice system favours the rich, State report reveals

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Africa Kenya

Kenya’s criminal justice system favours the rich and is skewed to condemn the poor, a State report has revealed.

October 23, 2019

DRC : grève suspendue à la prison centrale de Bukavu

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Africa Congo - Kinshasa

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October 22, 2019

DRC: “Prison teaches looking backwards”

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Africa Justice Congo - Kinshasa

“In some buildings, 80 prisoners are packed into 30m².” Mwana is currently serving his 19th year of incarceration. He speaks out.

October 17, 2019

RDC : le personnel de la prison de Bukavu dénonce les conditions de détention

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Africa Material conditions Congo - Kinshasa

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October 17, 2019

Cameroon: "Some of the people sentenced to death go crazy"

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Africa Death penalty Violence Cameroon

A team of lawyers met 37 inmates who were sentenced to death and are being held in various Cameroonian prisons. Excerpts.

October 7, 2019

Chad: l'armée reprend le contrôle de la prison d’Abéché après une mutinerie

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Africa Protest Violence Chad

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October 7, 2019

Madagascar: out of sight

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Africa Women Material conditions Activities Social ties Madagascar

Elise Maillot is 30 years old. She has been visiting prisons for the last two years. She was in Madagascar, her home country, at the end of 2018. There, she visited the Manjakandriana prison for women. Prison Insider asked her three questions.

October 5, 2019

Gambia: des conditions de détention qui tardent à changer

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Africa Material conditions Gambia

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October 1, 2019

Madagascar: the children in prison for stealing vanilla

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Africa Madagascar

Children accused of stealing vanilla beans in Madagascar can spend nearly three years in prison without trial.

September 10, 2019

Nigeria: military holding children as Boko Haram suspects

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Africa Nigeria

Thousands have been held in deplorable conditions.

September 10, 2019

Nigeria: Interview: children languishing in Nigeria’s military prison

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Africa Nigeria

Detained kids accused of Boko Haram sympathies, are actually Boko Haram victims.

September 7, 2019

Éthiopie: la tristement célèbre prison Maekelawi ouvre ses portes au public

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Africa Ethiopia

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September 6, 2019

Sénégal: ces photos ne montrent pas des détenus au Sénégal mais les conditions de détention y demeurent "extrêmement préoccupantes"

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Africa Material conditions Senegal

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September 4, 2019

Nigeria: miles de niños ilegalmente detenidos, acusados de yihadistas

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Africa Nigeria

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September 3, 2019

Nigeria: group lauds president for signing prison reform bill into law

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Africa Nigeria

Says it will reform Nigerian Prisons for better.

August 27, 2019

Mauritania: ordinary detention

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Africa Mauritania

Mohamed faces a police check. He is arrested and placed in custody for lack of proper documentation. He spends one week there. He tells his story.

August 23, 2019

Egypt: urgent investigation needed after death in notorious Al-Aqrab prison

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Africa Middle East Violence Egypt

Egyptian authorities must urgently carry out an independent and impartial investigation into the death of Hossam Hamed, a 30-year-old prisoner being held at al-Aqrab prison, amid allegations that he was tortured.

August 23, 2019

Guinea: intimidation by imprisonment

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Africa Guinea

Barry was a member of the main opposition party to President Alpha Condé. He was incarcerated for over four years.

August 20, 2019

Cameroon: Human Rights Watch dénonce la torture de détenus

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Africa Torture Cameroon

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August 12, 2019

Zimbabwe: 19 – 25 August 2019 set aside as Prison family Week 2019

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Africa Social ties Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe every year sets aside the Prison family Week and this year it has been set for 19 – 25 August. During this time visitors can go visit their incarcerated relatives and get to interact with them freely as family and friends. The Prison will be open from 8AM to 4PM.

August 9, 2019

Uganda: tortured in prison, Bizimana narrates his ordeal

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Africa Torture Uganda

Frank Bizimana was deported on Tuesday having spent more than a year in a jail in Ntungamo where he was physically and physiologically tortured.

August 6, 2019

Egypt: el agujero negro de la cárcel de Al Aqrab

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Africa Middle East Egypt

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July 31, 2019

Egypt: mass hunger strike at Al-Aqrab prison over denial of family visits and dire conditions

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Africa Middle East Social ties Egypt

The Egyptian authorities must immediately end cruel and inhumane detention conditions and allow regular family visits at al-Aqrab maximum security prison in Tora where approximately 130 detainees have gone on a mass hunger strike for more than six weeks, said Amnesty International today.

July 31, 2019

Egypt: mass hunger strike in prison

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Africa Middle East Egypt

About 130 inmates have been on hunger strike in an Egyptian prison for more than six weeks in protest at inhumane conditions and denial of family visits, according to Amnesty International.