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October 2, 2018

Reintegration: Prisoners, don’t eat that kind of bread!

Analysis Opinion

And what if the discourse on reintegration was just as indigestible?

October 1, 2018

Spain : Lanzan una operación contra presos yihadistas en una quincena de cárceles

News

Europe Spain

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October 1, 2018

Paraguay : decretó el estado de emergencia en las cárceles

News

South America Material conditions Paraguay

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October 1, 2018

Indonesia: prison break, convicts on the run after disaster

News

Asia Indonesia

Some 1,200 Indonesian convicts are on the run from three different detention facilities in devastated Sulawesi after the region was rocked by a powerful earthquake and tsunami, a justice ministry official said Monday. One prison in tsunami-struck Palu city - built to hold just 120 people - saw most…

October 1, 2018

Honduras: Es momento de buscar asistencia internacional para manejo de cárceles, dice Omar Rivera

News

Central America and the Caribbean Honduras

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October 1, 2018

France : ados et derrière les barreaux... Entre les murs de la prison pour mineurs d'Orvault (Nantes)

News

Europe France

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September 28, 2018

UK: Why doesn't prison work for women?

News

Women Europe United Kingdom

Women make up just under 5% of the prison population in England and Wales, yet they are more likely than men to reoffend. Why doesn’t prison work for women and what is being done to improve outcomes for them? “The last day, I was given a bin bag of my stuff. The door closed behind me, and it was ov…

September 27, 2018

USA: Pennsylvania is sentencing people to die in prison at an alarming rate

News

A new report from the Abolitionist Law Center “presents a definitive portrait of a punishment that is archaic, cruel, unjustified, and indefensible,” its co-author says.

September 27, 2018

France : comme des bêtes en cage

News

Europe France

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September 26, 2018

Côte d'Ivoire: grogne de l'administration pénitentiaire

News

Africa Côte d’Ivoire

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September 26, 2018

USA: Virginia backtracks on tampon ban for prison visitors

News

Social ties United States

The Virginia Department of Corrections has decided to hold off implementing a controversial new policy that would have barred women from visiting state prisons wearing tampons or menstrual cups.

September 25, 2018

UK: it’s no wonder prisons are in crisis. Inmates are humans, too

News

United Kingdom

Strikes by prisoners and officers in the UK and US highlight how the failing prison system demeans us all. The last couple of months have been a crucial time for the prison system. The mass walkout by prison officers in England and Wales a fortnight ago, which was quickly called off by the Prison O…

September 25, 2018

The true history of America's private prison industry

News

United States

Before founding the Corrections Corporation of America, a $1.8 billion private prison corporation now known as CoreCivic, Terrell Don Hutto ran a cotton plantation the size of Manhattan. There, mostly black convicts were forced to pick cotton from dawn to dusk for no pay. It was 1967 and the Beatle…

September 24, 2018

France: un quartier pour radicalisés dans la prison de Condé-sur-Sarthe

News

Europe Discipline Facilities France

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September 24, 2018

France : "au sport, on oublie la détention "

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Europe France

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September 18, 2018

En France, on se suicide sept fois plus en prison qu’en liberté

News

Europe Health Suicide Violence France

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September 18, 2018

USA: federal prisons fail to provide adequate services for female inmates

News

Women United States

The study by the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General reveals a system that fails to meet certain basic needs of prisoners in ways large and small.

September 18, 2018

France : la prison de Gradignan, symbole de la surpopulation carcérale [vidéo]

News

Europe Overcrowding France

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September 17, 2018

RDC : Evasion à la prison de Kabare (Sud-Kivu)

News

Africa Protest Congo - Kinshasa

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September 17, 2018

Australia: plea from 35 groups for action on Indigenous Australians in prison

News

Oceania Australia

A coalition of more than 35 human rights, justice and community organisations have written to the Australian government pleading for action on the rising numbers of Indigenous people in prisons.

September 17, 2018

Birmanie : une quarantaine de détenus s'évadent en camion poubelle

News

Asia Myanmar (Burma)

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September 16, 2018

France : des expéditions punitives à la prison de Metz-Queuleu

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Europe Violence France

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September 13, 2018

Prison Insider in 2017

Activity report

In 2017, nearly 11 million people were imprisoned around the world. Although civil society is gradually becoming aware of the inhumanity of incarceration conditions and the futility of the current prison system, it has not yet succeeded in profoundly questioning its foundations. Take a look at the…

September 12, 2018

USA: the national prison strike is over, now is the time prisoners are most in danger

News

Protest United States

Over the last few weeks men and women across the United States – and even as far away as Nova Scotia, Canada – have protested to demand humane treatment for the incarcerated.