Information, topic by topic, on prisons across the world

July 2, 2020

Colombia: se disparan casos de coronavirus en cárceles de Cali, Cartagena y El Espinal

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Coronavirus South America Health Colombia

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July 2, 2020

Chile: la realidad de las cárceles en pandemia y la falta de información pública

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Coronavirus South America Health Chile

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July 2, 2020

South Africa: Pietermaritzburg prisoners fear Covid-19

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Africa Coronavirus Long-term prisoners Health Material conditions Overcrowding South Africa

Inmates serving lengthy sentences for serious and violent crimes say basic regulations to combat the spread of the coronavirus are being flouted, putting their lives at risk.

July 2, 2020

Egypt: ‘It would spread quickly in those cells’

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Africa Coronavirus Health Egypt

Families of prisoners at notorious Tora complex concerned publicised efforts to contain virus are purely cosmetic

July 2, 2020

USA: the coronavirus crisis inside prisons won’t stay behind bars

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Coronavirus North America Health United States

Federal officials recognized the danger of the spread of coronavirus in prisons early, but have dragged their feet releasing at-risk inmates.

July 2, 2020

USA: massive COVID-19 outbreak at a southern NM prison hits just one type of inmates — sex offenders. That’s by design.

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Coronavirus North America Health United States

As the coronavirus established a foothold in southern New Mexico’s Otero County Prison Facility in mid-May, state officials quietly moved 39 inmates out of the massive complex near the Texas border to another prison near Santa Fe. The inmates shared something in common: None was a sex offender. In…

July 1, 2020

Canada: Inuit overrepresented in federal prisons’ COVID-19 cases

Coronavirus North America Health Canada

“They were afraid, they were stressed, they were kept in isolation”

July 1, 2020

USA: Coronavirus cases skyrocket at Bay Area prison after inmate transfers

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Coronavirus Health United States

Some men hadn’t been tested for weeks prior to being moved to San Quentin, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

July 1, 2020

France: Inequality of life during an epidemic

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Those imprisoned or detained are in forced confinement, states Didier Fassin. He has published a forum on the Liberation website. He questions whether the “sense of responsibility and solidarity” advocated by Emmanuel Macron stops at the doors of prisons and overcrowded detention centres.

July 1, 2020

France: “They make me panic”

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Coronavirus Europe Health France

Samy has chronic bronchitis. Due to a lack of care units, he has recently been transferred from a semi-custodial facility to the “new arrivals” unit of Mans detention centre. He recounts his detention conditions.

July 1, 2020

USA: Covid-19 cases at San Quentin prison surge to 1,000

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Coronavirus North America Health Material conditions United States

The number of coronavirus cases in California’s San Quentin state prison has crossed a thousand, with more than 900 cases being diagnosed in the last two weeks alone.

July 1, 2020

Cameroon : à Douala, déboires et espoirs des mineurs de la prison

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June 24, 2020

France: déconfinement en prison, "le gel hydroalcoolique est banni, au cas où je voudrais le boire !"

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Coronavirus Europe Health France

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June 24, 2020

Colombia: 2.236 internos contagiados por la COVID-19 en 17 cárceles

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Coronavirus South America Health Colombia

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June 24, 2020

Ecuador: exigen medidas ante brotes de Covid-19 en cárceles

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Coronavirus South America Health Ecuador

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June 24, 2020

USA: abogados, “es probable que haya más contagiados en cárceles”

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Coronavirus North America Health United States

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June 24, 2020

Colombia: en Barranquilla hay 47 presos con COVID-19 en cárceles del Inpec

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Coronavirus South America Health Colombia

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June 23, 2020

UK: "A day in the life of a Prison Nurse"

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Nurse Katie Haddon talks readers through a day in the life of a Prison Nurse.

June 17, 2020

Ecuador: two inmates die in Lacatunga's prison riot

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Coronavirus South America Health Protest Ecuador

Prisoners demanded better health conditions and accused the authorities of condemning them to death, since they allow people who are already infected to enter the wards.

June 17, 2020

Brazil: COVID-19 breeds fear and calls for change

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Coronavirus South America Health Brazil

Carolina, a Brazilian mother, hasn’t heard anything from her jailed son since March when authorities banned prison visits due to the coronavirus outbreak and she is scared. As COVID-19 deaths rise in Brazil’s violent and overcrowded jails, activists have called for tens of thousands of prisoners to…

June 17, 2020

Venezuela: al menos 1.410 reclusos han sido puestos en libertad desde el inicio de la cuarentena

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Coronavirus South America Justice Health Venezuela

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June 17, 2020

Ukraine: COVID-19 has reached prisons

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Coronavirus Europe Health Ukraine

Ukraine’s jails are struggling to cope with COVID-19 – jeopardising inmates’ health in the process.

June 11, 2020

Yemen: rights group says detainees face ‘slow death’ in prison

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Middle East Health Material conditions Yemen

The Yemeni Abductees’ Mothers Association in the city of Aden yesterday warned that the detainees in Bir Ahmed Prison are facing a “slow death” due to ill-treatment by the prison administration. The group said in a statement that the prison administration deliberately mistreats detainees by cutting…

June 11, 2020

United Arab Emirates : reported Covid-19 prison outbreaks

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Coronavirus Middle East Health United Arab Emirates

(Beirut) – UAE prison authorities should take urgent measures to protect the mental and physical health of prisoners amid reported Covid-19 outbreaks in at least three detention facilities across the country, Human Rights Watch said today. Family members of prisoners in al-Wathba prison near Abu Dh…