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January 28, 2019

United States : à quoi ressemble une prison américaine ? [audio]

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United States

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January 28, 2019

Brazil’s prison gangs are launching massive terrorism attacks. This explains why

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America South America Violence Brazil

Just one day after his inauguration, Brazil’s right-wing populist President Jair Bolsonaro faced his first public-security crisis. On Jan. 2, prison gangs launched a terrorism campaign throughout Ceara state, paralyzing the capital city, Fortaleza. Although he has deployed federal troops, violence…

January 28, 2019

New Zealand: ICRC hands over prison support programme to ZPCS

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Oceania New Zealand

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) last week handed over its decade-long prison support programme aimed at improving prison management, infrastructure rehabilitation, food supply chain management and treatment of detained mental health patients, to the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correcti…

January 27, 2019

Spain: Castilla y León, en las cárceles de la región hay 3.200 presos menos que hace nueve años

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Europe Spain

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January 27, 2019

Spain: la cárcel como salida

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Europe Spain

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January 27, 2019

Ecuador: luces y sombras en las cárceles

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America Central America and the Caribbean Ecuador

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January 25, 2019

United States: ‘You’re going to let me die from this’, prisoners fight to access a hepatitis-C cure

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Health United States

Inmates are being denied treatment, and it’s creating an epidemic.

January 25, 2019

United States: transgender inmate moved to women’s prison

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Women LGBTQI United States

For the first time in the state, a transgender inmate has been moved from an all-male prison to the state women’s prison, MCI-Framingham (above) to be housed according to her gender identity.

January 24, 2019

France: surveillants de prison, le risque d’un nouveau front social

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Europe France

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January 23, 2019

Lebanon: and so, the days go on

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Middle East Lebanon

Hussein is incarcerated in the Roumieh central prison. His trial is still going on and he does not know how much longer it will be until it is over. He tells Prison Insider what a typical day in prison is like.

January 23, 2019

Belgium: surpopulation carcérale et nouvelles prisons, l'Etat va-t-il droit dans le mur?

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Europe Overcrowding Belgium

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January 21, 2019

Living conditions for those sentenced to death

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Death penalty Violence

Worldwide, there are 20,000 people sentenced to death. They are detained in countries that still use the death penalty like China, Iran, the United States, Japan, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. Others are detained in countries that no longer use the death penalty, for instance Mauritania. These prison…

January 20, 2019

Spain: los funcionarios de prisiones demandan más recursos

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Europe Spain

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January 20, 2019

Mexico: Veracruz, con incremento de mujeres en las cárceles

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America Central America and the Caribbean Mexico

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January 19, 2019

Colombia: Consejo de Estado obliga a autoridades a mejorar cárcel Peñas Blancas

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America South America Colombia

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January 19, 2019

Argentina: más de 300 guardias entrenan para la primera cárcel juvenil

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America South America Argentina

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January 17, 2019

France: grand débat national, les détenus pourront-ils participer aux discussions ?

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Europe France

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January 17, 2019

France: justice pour mineurs, quand le gouvernement court-circuite le Parlement

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Europe France

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January 17, 2019

Norway: punir autrement [video]

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Europe Norway

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January 17, 2019

France: Bonneville, l’administration « désencombre » la prison au prix des liens familiaux et de la réinsertion

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Europe Social ties France

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January 16, 2019

Les conditions de détention continuent de se dégrader en Afrique et dans le monde

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Material conditions

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January 16, 2019

Belgium: la place des psychotiques en prison au coeur des débats

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Europe Belgium

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January 16, 2019

United Kingdom: wales has highest incarceration rate in western Europe – study

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Europe United Kingdom

Prison population in 2017 was 154 per 100,000 in Wales, compared with 141 in England.

January 14, 2019

Iceland: no prison psychiatrist in five years

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Europe Mental health Iceland

There hasn’t been a psychiatrist working in Icelandic prisons for more than five years, despite that fact that prisoners are guaranteed mental health services by law, RÚV reports. Three individuals incarcerated in Icelandic prisons have committed suicide in the last two years, a fact that is being…