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Sierra Leone
On 13 January 2017 the project “Monitoring Access to Justice and Protecting Human Rights through Legal Aid Representation in Places of Detention”, implemented by Prison Watch Sierra Leone and with a budget of €284,000 over 24 months funded by the European Union Delegation to Sierra Leone through the…
Source — European Union
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Antigua & Barbuda
There is no running water, educational classes are suspended because infectious diseases have scared off the teachers and almost 400 inmates are squeezed into a site intended for 150 - minus one who escaped over the weekend.
It is a Monday morning at 1735, Antigua and Barbuda’s national prison, which…
Source — BBC
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Europe
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France
Sorry, this article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Le Figaro
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Kenya
For the fourth day running, the Naivasha Maximum Security Prison has had no water.
This follows the disconnection of the institution’s power supply over an estimated Sh1.6 million in unpaid bills.
The power is required to pump water from the institution’s borehole.
Source — Daily Nation
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Europe
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Georgia
The Committee of Ministers in the Council of Europe said the current Georgian Government had addressed the issue of prison overcrowding.
A special committee within the Council of Europe (CoE) has released a document assessing the improving situation in Georgia’s prisons and the efforts of the current…
Source — News.Az
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Africa
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Congo - Kinshasa
Les 622 pensionnaires de la prison centrale de Kalemie manquent de nourriture. La direction de la prison décrit une situation préoccupante, indiquant avoir reçu les vivres pour la dernière fois en juin.
Cette maison carcérale conçue pour 250 prisonniers a récemment reçu 23 nouveaux prisonniers.
Elle…
Source — Radio Okapi
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Africa
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Malawi
As Malawi faces El Nino-induced hunger which has affected 6.5 million people, inmates in the country’s prisons are going for days without food. A survey by Medicins San Frontiers (MSF) revealed that as a food crisis unfolded in the southern Africa nation, prisons were failing to purchase simple food…
Source — News 24
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United States
The economic toll of incarceration in the U.S. tops $1 trillion, and more than half of that falls on the families and communities of the people incarcerated, according to a recent study by Washington University researchers.
“For every dollar in corrections spending, there’s another 10 dollars of other…
Source — St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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United States
Cosas tan simples como un cigarrillo, un chicle o una sopa instantánea son la “moneda” de los reos ante las limitantes de artículos personales y el rechazo a la comida de los penales.
Esto es lo que afirman algunos presos paseños y el reciente estudio de un sociólogo de la Universidad de Arizona que…
Source — El Diario de El Paso
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Women
Middle East
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Suicide
Iran
Around 200 female prisoners detained in the notorious Qarchak Prison near Tehran detailed the horrid conditions of the prison in a letter to Tehran’s Director-General of Prisons.
Source — Iran News Wire
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United States
In Kentucky, a judge was outraged after a female inmate was brought into her courtroom without pants on, having been denied access to female hygiene products for days. Advocates explain how our prison system is failing women.
Appearing in a courtroom in only your underwear is more commonly the stuff…
Source — Vice
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Africa
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Torture
Violence
Cameroon
En raison de la surpopulation qui règne dans la prison de Maroua, jusqu’à huit détenus y meurent chaque mois. Plus de 100 personnes, dont des femmes, ont été condamnées à mort par des tribunaux militaires.Les attaques de boko haram au Cameroun ont fait près de 500 morts en 2015.
Source — Amnesty International
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Protest
Romania
Detainees in three Romanian prisons have protested against conditions, setting light to clothes and refusing food.
The protest began in the high-security prison of Iasi this week where prison authorities said inmates set light to a cell. The protest spread to two other prisons.
Source — The New York Times
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Asia
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Torture
Vietnam
Le Vietnam serait l’un des pays les plus fermés d’Asie, notamment sur ce qui se passe dans ses prisons. Un rapport d’Amnesty International dénonce des conditions de détention inhumaines : disparitions forcées, tortures, privations de soins médicaux. Les principales victimes sont des prisonniers d’opinion,…
Source — RFI
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Africa
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Burundi
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Source — Burundi Africa Generation News
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Prisons of Madagascar
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Africa
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Overcrowding
Madagascar
“Overcrowding, the stench of urine as soon as you cross the threshold, rats and vermin everywhere…” Virginie de Galzain
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Africa
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Protest
Benin
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Source — Bénin web TV
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Africa
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Tunisia
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Source — Business News
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Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso’s security staff in detention centre started Thursday nationwide unlimited strike to demand better working and living conditions, Xinhua reporter witnessed on the spot.
Source — Shangaidaily
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Europe
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Overcrowding
Myykola Gnatovskyy, President of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) : “I can say that in several countries, we have seen conditions where persons would not have sufficient living space in a cell, or even had to share beds with other prisoners – something that is very alarming…
Source — Euronews
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Conditions inhumaines des détenus béninois : Michel ADJAKA dénonce la mauvaise foi du gouvernement
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Africa
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Torture
Benin
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Source — Bénin web TV
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Africa
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Tunisia
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Source — Webdo.tn
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