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October 21, 2019

Haiti : dicey prison conditions made worse by crisis

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America Central America and the Caribbean Material conditions Haiti

Port-au-Prince (AFP) - With protests rocking the streets, some prison authorities in Haiti have confined inmates to cells that lack showers or toilets, in a country where most detainees are stuck awaiting trial for months or even years.

October 17, 2019

RDC : le personnel de la prison de Bukavu dénonce les conditions de détention

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Africa Material conditions Congo - Kinshasa

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October 17, 2019

Cameroon: "Some of the people sentenced to death go crazy"

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Africa Death penalty Violence Cameroon

A team of lawyers met 37 inmates who were sentenced to death and are being held in various Cameroonian prisons. Excerpts.

October 17, 2019

United States of America: an average day at the joint

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America North America United States

Qwantay has been incarcerated for 16 years and will be released in 2034. He describes what a day in prison is like.

October 15, 2019

India : central prison to get its own radio station soon

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Asia India

The foundation has installed the equipment and connected them with 24 speakers in every nook and corner of the prison.

October 15, 2019

France: quatre détenus évadés lundi soir

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Europe France

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October 14, 2019

France: la première crèche en prison de France

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Europe France

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October 13, 2019

France: face aux suicides en prison, les détenus s’entraident pour libérer la parole

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Europe Suicide France

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October 13, 2019

UK: high-security prison opens up to visits from autistic children

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Europe Social ties United Kingdom

Maghaberry near Belfast houses republican and loyalist paramilitaries plus life sentence murderers behind its razor-wire fences and high walls.

October 13, 2019

France: "la prison est essentielle pour comprendre le djihadisme français"

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Europe France

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October 12, 2019

France: un match de football entre détenus et avocats à la prison de Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone

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Europe France

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October 12, 2019

UK: prison officers told to knock on cell doors to make youth detention "child friendly"

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Europe United Kingdom

Prison officers have been told to knock before entering the cells of young inmates in order to make youth detention centres “more child friendly”.

October 12, 2019

Mexico: reclusas en San Luis Potosí demandaron a empresas maquiladoras por explotación laboral

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America Central America and the Caribbean Mexico

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October 11, 2019

South Africa: pollsmoor most overcrowded prison in the Western Cape

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Overcrowding South Africa

Cape Town - Pollsmoor prison has been pinpointed as the most overcrowded prison in the Western Cape. Medium B, which houses males, is more than 200% overcrowded.

October 11, 2019

USA: California now has the nation’s strictest private prison ban

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America North America United States

The law prohibits any for-profit lockups—including immigration detention centers.

October 11, 2019

USA: how a prison play goes on Tour (photos)

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America North America United States

Thirty Colorado inmates staged “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” for nearby prisons. For some, it was the first time in years they were outside 20-foot walls and razor fences.

October 10, 2019

Brazil: el escándalo de torturas que Bolsonaro considera una “tontería” y Moro, “un “malentendido”

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America South America Torture Brazil

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October 10, 2019

UK: self-inflicted deaths rise in prisons in England and Wales

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Europe United Kingdom

Watchdog also finds drug use continues to plague jails despite agreed action plans.

October 10, 2019

Smell — 5/12

Inside Outside

America 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…

October 10, 2019

Turkey: prison board not have authority to block letters on rights violations according the Constitutional Court

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Europe Turkey

Two inmates’ letters to parliamentarians on rights violations in the prison were not sent by the prison administration.

October 10, 2019

France: comment l'administration scrute les surveillants radicalisés

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Europe Religion France

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October 10, 2019

Japan: ”her present fate is to rot in solitude”

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Women Asia Death penalty Japan

C. Hayashi has been visiting his mother on death row for 16 years. He talks about her conditions of detention.

October 10, 2019

Iran: a child of the gallows

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Middle East Death penalty Iran

Homan was born in prison. Both his parents were executed. He then spent three years in prison. This is his story.

October 10, 2019

Belarus: “we’re still wondering where he is buried…”

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Europe Death penalty Belarus

Aliaksandra Y.’s father was sentenced to death and executed in 2016. She was not notified of the execution. This is her story.