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June 22, 2023

India: UP prisons to be known as "reform homes"

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Asia Material conditions Rehabilitation India

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, while reviewing the condition of prisons in a high-level meeting on Thursday, gave important guidelines towards prison reform.He expressed the need to establish prisons as ‘Sudhaar Grah’ (Reform Homes) and issued instructions regarding the preparation o…

June 6, 2023

North Korea: toddler, parents jailed for life after being caught with Bible

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Asia Death penalty Torture North Korea

A two-year-old North Korean was sentenced to life in prison after officials found a Bible in the toddler’s parents’ possession, as the totalitarian regime continued to “execute” and “torture” religious worshippers. As many as 70,000 Christians are imprisoned in North Korea, according to a new Inter…

June 1, 2023

“We wanted a seat at the table, so we created our own”

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Africa America Asia Europe Oceania Justice

In March 2023, formerly incarcerated people from around the globe met at the Incarceration Nations Network (INN) hub in Cape Town for the first edition of the Global Freedom Fellowship. Khalil Chait, who spent 10 years in prison in the Netherlands, was one of them. Interview.

May 26, 2023

India: Tihar Jail violence, no quick-fix solutions, judicial reforms necessary

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Asia Violence India

Tihar Jail, located in New Delhi, is one of South Asia’s largest and most notorious prison complexes. The prison was intended as a correctional facility, but the growing spate of violence and gang wars within the jail has cast a shadow over its reputation yet again. Why have the authorities been un…

May 12, 2023

India: recreational activities held for kids of women prisoners

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Women Asia Activities India

Recreational activities will be organised for the children of women inmates in jail in connection with project “Khushi” a campaign of the Chhattisgarh State Legal Services Authority (SLSA) to provide a different environment to children suffering for a crime they have not committed while staying wit…

April 27, 2023

India: central government to release special scheme to help poor inmates to pay for bail, leave prison

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Asia Justice India

The MHA has been contributing financially to the State Government’s efforts to upgrade and modernise the jail security infrastructure.

April 3, 2023

North Korea: torture, forced abortions and insects for food inside North Korean jails

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Asia Material conditions Torture Violence North Korea

Extrajudicial executions, rape, forced abortions, jail without trial, torture, starvation rations that leave prisoners so hungry some turn to eating insects.

March 29, 2023

Filming the obscurity

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Africa America Asia Europe Facilities Overcrowding Violence Rehabilitation

The Netflix documentary series “Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons” gives viewers a visual representation of what daily life is like for prisoners around the world. Prison Insider met its host, Raphael Rowe. Interview.

February 22, 2023

India: Physiotherapy centre set up in Berhampur jail

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Asia Material conditions India

A physiotherapist voluntarily provided some basic equipment to make the unit functional

February 22, 2023

India: Illiterate once, Ajmer jail inmates now write letters

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Asia Material conditions India

Ensuring that illiterate prisoners return home as educated people is the motto of this social reform programme in jails

February 8, 2023

Myanmar: Activists fight on in belly of the beast

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Political prisoners have continued to express dissent from inside, often with violent consequences, as tensions simmer with prison officials.

February 8, 2023

Japan: Death row inmates' lawyers call for discussion on executions

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A group of lawyers representing three people on death row in Japan criticized the secrecy shrouding the country’s executions.

January 25, 2023

Russia: seen in the press / 2023

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Asia Torture Work Russia

Violence, acts of protest, prison conditions, justice reforms: find out what is new about prisons and justice in this country. Prison Insider monitors the press on a regular basis. Change the language setting to French or Spanish to read other articles.

January 12, 2023

China: Rights defender ‘brutally tortured’ in prison

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Asia Torture China

Lin Mingjie has been in prison since 2016 after he sued local officials for abusing the law for personal gain.

January 11, 2023

Bangladesh: Workshop on developing protocol to tackle scabies in prisons

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Asia Health Bangladesh

Similar to prisons around the world, scabies is a recurrent health problem in places of detention in Bangladesh.

January 11, 2023

North Korea: Camp 15 is reorganized to increase prison population

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Asia Facilities North Korea

Daily NK’s source responded to reports suggesting that the Yodok prison camp has been closed by saying that nothing of the sort has happened.

January 11, 2023

India: Delhi HC says undertrial prisoners can’t be detained in custody for an indefinite period

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Asia Justice India

The court says the object of jail is neither ‘punitive nor preventive’ and that deprivation of liberty is considered a punishment.

December 8, 2022

Russia: Brittney Griner facing ‘terrible’ life at remote penal colony

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Asia Violence Russia

The inmates at IK-2 penal colony rise at 6 a.m. each day for a breakfast of milk porridge, bread and tea. Soon they leave their barracks at this aging facility about 300 miles southeast of Moscow, in the isolated republic of Mordovia.

December 8, 2022

Japan: Death row inmates sue over 'cruel' hanging

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Asia Death penalty Japan

Three death row prisoners have filed a lawsuit against the Japanese government, arguing that execution by hanging is cruel and should be abolished, their lawyer said.

November 29, 2022

Russia: Navalni denuncia un endurecimiento de las condiciones de detención

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This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: Spanish

November 28, 2022

India: prisoners on life term can be freed after 14 years

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Asia Justice India

The Pushkar Singh Dhami-led state cabinet on Monday gave its approval to a home (prison) department proposal that recommends release of prisoners serving life imprisonment after completing a 14 years’ jail term on the grounds of good conduct.

November 28, 2022

Russia: a prison hospital became a torture dungeon

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Asia Health Violence Russia

“Strapped down, had genitals shoved in their faces”. How a prison hospital in Krasnoyarsk became a torture dungeon

November 18, 2022

Russie : Des prisonniers russes envoyés par dizaines de milliers sur le front ukrainien

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Asia Violence Russia

This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: French

November 8, 2022

Cambodia: dissident begins hunger strike over prison conditions

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Asia Material conditions Cambodia

Theary Seng’s stand comes ahead of U.S. President Joe Biden’s visit to Cambodia for this week’s ASEAN summits.