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“I was once a professional and a free mind. Now I am not,” says Asif Khan who was on death row and was acquitted in the 7/11 Mumbai blasts case.
Iran: deaths of incarcerated people reignite calls for closure of "uninhabitable" women's prison
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In a desert outside Iran’s capital, Tehran, lies one of the largest women’s prisons in the world. Several thousand women are believed to be incarcerated in Qarchak Prison, which is notorious for severe overcrowding, poor sanitation, and inadequate medical care.
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About 25% of incarcerated men released from a jail in a county find themselves homeless, according to a report.
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Karnataka’s prisons continue to face overcrowding. Of the total population, over 76% are undertrials, reflecting the prolonged pendency of criminal cases and slow judicial processes.
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United Kingdom
Incarcerated people at a troubled jail in Nottinghamshire have repeatedly been held in their cells “due to staffing levels”, new figures have shown.
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The Southern African Development Community Parliamentary Forum (SADC PF) opened a two-day consultation in Johannesburg focusing on health in prisons and the draft SADC model law on prison oversight.
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Nigeria
A Lagos-based non-governmental organisation, Zarephath Aid (ZA), has called for urgent reforms in Nigeria’s justice sector, urging the judiciary and government agencies to go beyond speeches and take decisive steps to decongest correctional facilities, enforce child rights, and curb police excesses…
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Tajikistan
On September 24, Tajikistan’s Ombudsman, Umed Bobozoda, visited the YS 3/1 correctional facility in Vahdat to inspect the conditions under which incarcerated people are held.
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Jailed Cuban dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer, the longtime leader of the island’s pro-democracy movement, announced that he had chosen to go into exile after suffering “torture” and “humiliation” in prison.
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Georgia
A member of the Georgian opposition party, Gela Khasaia, has been placed in pre-trial detention on charges of intentional acts of violence. He reported degrading treatment during detention, while his supporters were forcibly removed from the court building during his hearing.
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Amid a decade-long court battle, control of Hinds County’s Raymond Detention Center — severely understaffed and rife with violence, dysfunction and inhumane conditions — is now under the control of a court-appointed administrator.
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Belgium
Staff and management at all Belgian prisons will protest against overcrowding in front of prison buildings. “The prison crisis is unprecedented, and prisons are crying out for help,” said the prison administration.
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Iran
Political prisoner Mehdi Farahi began a hunger strike to protest the death of a female political prisoner and conditions for women at Qarchak Prison.
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United States
United States prison population is growing older at a pace that some experts say is unsustainable.
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South Sudan
State lawmakers in Western Equatoria visited Yambio Central Prison, urging immediate government action to address what they described as severe overcrowding, critical shortages of food and medicine, and inadequate conditions for incarcerated people with infectious diseases.
United States: as prisons deal with heat waves, climate crisis makes abolition even more urgent
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While the planet continues to warm, conditions in prisons, and specifically in solitary confinement, continue to worsen.
