Information, topic by topic, on prisons across the world

October 9, 2019

Venezuela: tortura en el reñidero de Maduro sobre detenidos desnudos en el suelo

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America South America Torture Venezuela

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October 8, 2019

Mexico: la prison la plus incontrôlable du pays fermée pour devenir un musée

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America Central America and the Caribbean Mexico

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October 6, 2019

USA: inmate recorded horrid prison conditions using cameras hidden in Bible, oversize glasses

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America North America Material conditions United States

A prisoner at the Martin Correctional Institution spent years recording life at the Florida facility, detailing horrid conditions and neglect from staff, according to The Miami Herald.

October 5, 2019

USA: the economics of prison gangs

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America North America United States

Prison gangs have not always been present in the American penal system so understanding the factors that have given rise to their growth is key to seeing prisoners as rational actors.

October 4, 2019

USA: study shows link between restrictive housing and increased risk of mortality after release from prison

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A new study led by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has found that being held in restrictive housing (i.e., solitary confinement) is associated with an increased risk of death after a person is released from prison.

October 2, 2019

USA: Sheriffs release sick people from jail to avoid paying hospital bills

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Michael Tidwell’s blood sugar reading was at least 15 times his normal level when sheriff’s deputies took him to the hospital. But before they loaded the inmate into the back of a car, deputies propped up his slumping body and handed him a pen so he could sign a release from the Washington County J…

September 30, 2019

Venezuela: detenidos enfermos en calabozos no tienen quien vele por su salud

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America South America Venezuela

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September 27, 2019

USA: prison book bans called ‘arbitrary and irrational’

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America North America United States

A report from PEN America says some restrictions targeted books by authors including Barack Obama, John Updike and Joyce Carol Oates.

September 24, 2019

Brazil: Lula préfère la prison à un aménagement de peine

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America South America Brazil

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September 24, 2019

Uruguay: rebuilding life after prison

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America South America Uruguay

They founded a cooperative to mitigate housing and employment challenges. These cooperatives are one of the measures put in place to give low-income residents access to lodging through financial support from the State. Self-management, solidarity and participatory democracy are the central values…

September 23, 2019

Mexico: cárceles de Tamaulipas, peligro para niños y niñas

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America Central America and the Caribbean Mexico

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September 21, 2019

Paraguay: autorizan utilización de blindados y personal militar para custodiar cárceles

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America South America Paraguay

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September 21, 2019

Argentina: crisis en las cárceles y comisarías bonaerenses, la superpoblación alcanza el 100%

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America South America Overcrowding Argentina

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September 21, 2019

USA: sentenced to death by Incarceration in New York state prison

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America North America United States

The conversation around criminal justice reform is finally moving from general talk about mass incarceration to the specific reality of the multitude of people serving massive sentences.

September 20, 2019

Argentina: dans une prison, "le rugby a été mon exutoire"

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America South America Argentina

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September 20, 2019

USA: a college education in prison opens unexpected path to freedom

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America North America United States

Cal State LA’s Prison Graduation Initiative is the state’s only public B.A. program sending professors to teach behind bars. College programs like it were once far more common, but today advocates are hopeful the political winds have shifted enough to bring public dollars back to prison education.

September 19, 2019

Bolivia: “Libros por rejas” busca incentivar la lectura en las cárceles para reinserción de presos

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America South America Bolivia

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September 10, 2019

Hearing — 4/12

Inside Outside

America North America South America Women Asia Europe Long-term prisoners

Each month, the photographer Bertrand Gaudillère creates an image or chooses one from his archives. Prison Insider sends it to a dozen participants, prisoners around the world.They are in Argentina, in the United States of America, in France, in Switzerland, in Guatemala, in Ukraine, in Colombia, i…

September 6, 2019

USA: judge threatens to lock up Texas prison officials over air conditioning violation

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A federal judge was visibly frustrated Friday as he suggested that putting state officials in uncooled cells might be the only way to get their attention after they broke a settlement agreement to keep some inmates in air conditioning.

September 6, 2019

USA: Nebraska prison on lockdown, watchdog cites rising tensions

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Nebraska’s largest prison was on lockdown Thursday so officers could comb through the facility, searching for drugs, alcohol, cellphones and weapons that officials blame for feeding a surge of violent assaults on staff members.

September 6, 2019

USA: justice for all: how Camp Grace strives to make prison safer

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For an NBC News series shedding light on the nation’s criminal justice system, TODAY’s Craig Melvin travels to California’s Salinas Valley State Prison to learn about its Camp Grace program. The wives of two incarcerated men say the summer camp is offering inmates a chance at redemption.

September 6, 2019

USA: we must abolish prisons to rebuild communities fractured by mass incarceration

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It is sometimes said that we can’t be what we cannot see, so are we able to imagine a world without jails and prisons? The U.S. is the world’s leader in incarceration. But how and where would we even begin to dismantle this enormous so-called prison-industrial complex, and what are the real solutio…

September 4, 2019

USA: New York plan to close notorious prison clears hurdle

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September 4, 2019

Mexico: el fin de Topo Chico, la tenebrosa y violenta prisión cerrará sus puertas

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America Central America and the Caribbean Violence Mexico

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