Asia
Coronavirus
Asia
Protest
Overcrowding
Violence
Sri Lanka
Authorities must work to release hundreds of detainees to ease overcrowding.
China: cien días después, se deben respetar los derechos de los jóvenes de Hong Kong detenidos
News
Asia
Minors
Access to legal rights
Justice
China
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Russia: former political prisoner takes Russia to court over torture conditions in Crimean prison
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Asia
Access to legal rights
Justice
Health
Material conditions
Torture
Violence
Russia
Hearings have begun in occupied Crimea into the lawsuit brought by Kazim Ametov against Russia’s penitentiary service and police over the inhuman conditions he was held prisoner in for over two years. The chances of a Russian-controlled “court” finding in favour of the former political prisoner are…
Pre-trial detention
Women
Asia
Access to legal rights
Protest
Thailand
On 5 November, a group of activists who have formerly been detained at the Central Women Correctional Institution gathered to protest against human rights violations inside the women’s prison.
Smell — 11/12
Inside Outside
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…
Tailandia: deben retirarse los cargos injustificados y poner en libertad a personas que se manifestaron pacíficamente
News
Asia
Access to legal rights
Justice
Protest
Thailand
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Taste — 10/12
Inside Outside
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…
Bangladesh: hay que liberar a cientos de trabajadores y trabajadoras migrantes en detención arbitraria
News
Asia
Access to legal rights
Justice
Work
Bangladesh
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Mapping the 'Blind Spots'
Interview
Africa
North America
Women
Asia
Death penalty
What are maps for? How are they produced?
Cambodia: ONG exigen que cumpla su promesa de liberar a 10.000 presos
News
Coronavirus
Asia
Health
Overcrowding
Cambodia
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Kirghizistan: Azimjan Askarov, défenseur des droits humains, meurt en prison
News
Asia
Torture
Kyrgyzstan
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À Hong Kong, la nouvelle loi sécuritaire prévoit la prison à vie
News
Asia
Justice
China
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Global Prison Trends 2020
Report
Africa
Asia
Europe
Middle East
Oceania
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Over 11 million people are held in prisons worldwide. Many face substandard detention conditions. Sentences keep getting longer, in underfunded justice systems. PRI has published its annual report on the state of prisons and the use of imprisonment: Global Prison Trends 2020.
Asia
Violence
Azerbaijan
Former detainees face routine threats and intimidation
Asia
Material conditions
Work
Taiwan
A Taiwanese technical mission to the Pacific island nation of Nauru is helping a penal facility improve food self-reliance and is teaching inmates skills they can use after their release, the team said yesterday.
“The project, with the goal of minimizing waste, officially started in January, with a…
Touch — 9/12
Inside Outside
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…
Coronavirus
Women
Asia
Afghanistan
Thousands of prisoners in Afghanistan have been released and pardoned as the country battles the Covid-19 pandemic. But in Kabul’s only prison facility for women, more than a hundred women, often with young children, remain behind bars. FRANCE 24 reports from Kabul.
In Afghanistan’s overcrowded pri…
Asia
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Thailand
BANGKOK — A university is working with a prison to help tackle overcrowding and unhygienic conditions that have stalked the Thai corrections system for years.
In a joint project by King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi and Thonburi Remand Prison, architecture students are asked to come u…
Unclear fates behind bars
Interview