Justice
Justice
United States
From 1990 to 2004, the rate of people on probation who were sent back to jail for noncompliance grew by 50 percent.
Source — Truth-out
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Africa
Europe
Justice
France
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Le Monde
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Europe
Justice
Overcrowding
France
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Le Monde
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Europe
Justice
Overcrowding
France
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Le Monde
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Europe
Justice
Social ties
France
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Le Figaro
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Europe
Justice
France
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Le Monde
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Justice
United Kingdom
Inmate loses attempt to enforce ban in prisons after court says crown premises are exempt.
Source — The Guardian
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Central America and the Caribbean
Justice
El Salvador
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Le Parisien
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Justice
Kenya
The mandatory death penalty violates fundamental human rights, rules the Supreme Court of Kenya today in a historic judgment that will affect thousands of prisoners.
Source — The death penalty project
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Justice
Social ties
United States
It’s been described as ‘Skype for the jailed’ and is being sold as safer and more convenient. But it begs the question: are in-person visits a human right?
Source — The Guardian
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Europe
Justice
France
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — l'Humanité
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Europe
Middle East
Discipline
Justice
United States
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
Analysis
Report
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 Europ1
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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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Prison Insider's editorials
Nepal: the challenges of achieving justice
Analysis
Report
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 cooperation1
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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 Philippine1
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 replacemen1
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, w1
Source — Open Society Foundations
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