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Ali Osman Karahan, an 87-year-old Turkish man who has been in an Isparta prison for almost 15 months over alleged links to the Gülen movement, was given 11 days of solitary confinement.
Source — TurkishMinute
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#VotoPreso - A party where prisoners are not invited
Analysis
Opinion
South America
Access to legal rights
Justice
Chile
Chileans are preparing to vote for the second round of the 2017 presidential elections this coming December 17. Country with one of the highest incarceration rates in Latin America, the vote of its prison population can weigh heavily in an election that is likely to be tight.
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"Surviving hell" in Eastern Ukraine
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Europe
Justice
Torture
Violence
Ukraine
Prison Insider’s correspondents in Ukraine shared several materials describing the conditions of detention in the Donbas region, in the East of the country. It is composed of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. Due to the crisis which started in 2014, Ukraine is divided between the so-called pro Europeans…
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Africa
Justice
Liberia
Monrovia – Pre-trial detainees in detention centers in Montserrado and Margibi Counties are to have their cases reviewed.
Source — Front Page Africa
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Move along, please. Nothing to see here
Prison Insider's editorials
Nepal: the challenges of achieving justice
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Asia
Justice
Torture
Nepal
For the first time in more than ten years, our correspondent in Nepal, Advocacy Forum (AF), is not in a position to conduct an assessment of whether the overall situation in regard of torture in police custody, during the last year, has improved or deteriorated.
This is due to a lack of cooperation from…
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South America
Justice
Brazil
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Courrier International
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Asia
Justice
Indonesia
Jakarta: Indonesians who join terrorist groups overseas will face a maximum 15 years’ jail under new anti-terrorism laws expected to be passed by September.
The new laws will enable authorities to crack down on Indonesians who return after fighting with the Islamic State in Syria or the Philippines.
Source — The Sydney Morning Herald
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Asia
Justice
Torture
China
Recent proposals to reform China’s police-run detention centers are unlikely to do much to address a nationwide “human rights disaster” for police suspects in detention, human rights lawyers told RFA.
The country’s Ministry of Public Security issued a call for consultation this week on a replacement…
Source — Radio Free Asia
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North America
Justice
Drugs
United States
Local authorities revived Smith, arrested him, and then gave him two options: he could go to jail or he could go into treatment. Smith chose treatment—or at least that’s what he thought. What Smith chose, more specifically, was to go through the alternative sentencing program known as drug court, which…
Source — Open Society Foundations
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Asia
Justice
Philippines
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Courrier International
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Suisse : prison à vie, internement à vie, internement ordinaire, quelles sont les différences ?
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Europe
Justice
Switzerland
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Tribune de Genève
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Do you dare? - Open letter to Mr. Macron
Prison Insider's editorials
Justice
Overcrowding
Romania
The inmates in Romania who are serving time in improper conditions may have their sentences reduced by 20%. The Chamber of Deputies adopted on Tuesday, May 9, the project that provides that, for every 30 days spent in improper conditions, an inmate would have his sentence reduced by six days.
Source — Romania Insider
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North America
Justice
Canada
Elimination of some minimum mandatory sentences and reform of bail system will be under review
Source — CBC News
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Africa
Justice
Chad
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — La Croix
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Europe
Justice
Material conditions
Romania
The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday (25 April) took Romania to task for its dismal prison conditions, saying they could be considered inhumane and degrading.
Source — Euractiv
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North America
Justice
United States
Every day and night, former Louisiana prosecutor A.M. Stroud thinks about Glenn Ford, the man he wrongfully sent to prison for almost half of his life and who would have been executed by the state had he not been exonerated 30 years after his conviction.
Source — The Advocate
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Justice
Drugs
Tunisia
Tunisian parliament votes to ease country’s harsh drug laws aftercalls from rights groups, civil society for broader reform of ‘Law 52’.
Source — Middle East Online
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