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December 26, 2018

France : un nouveau terrible record

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Europe France

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December 26, 2018

Italy: un projet pilote pour prévenir la radicalisation des femmes en prison

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Women Europe Religion Italy

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December 26, 2018

USA: Inmates dined in SC prison cells after toilets spewed raw sewage, SCDC says

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United States

Twelve South Carolina inmates were left in cells for hours after a backup spewed raw sewage from prison toilets, an SCDC spokesman confirmed to The State.

December 26, 2018

Thailand: Man electrocuted as he tries to escape from prison

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Asia Violence Thailand

A Thai prisoner died early Tuesday after being electrocuted by high-voltage barbed wire as he attempted to escape, police said. Wiwat Aksorsom, 32, broke free from his cell just after midnight along with two other prisoners and tried to scale the six-metre (20-ft) walls of his prison in southern Su…

December 26, 2018

Japan: deprivation of liberty, deprivation of humanity

Testimonial

Asia Japan

Geoffrey is currently incarcerated in Osaka prison. He tells, for Prison Insider, what any day in a Japanese prison looks like.

December 24, 2018

Russia: le directeur d'une prison suspendu après des cas de travaux forcés

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Asia Europe Russia

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December 24, 2018

USA: thousands held in NY's prisons will spend the holidays in solitary confinement

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Discipline United States

Roger Clark still remembers Christmas in solitary confinement. Clark spent five years at Southport Correctional Facility, New York’s first supermax prison dedicated to 23-hour lockdown, after defending himself from another prisoner’s assault.

December 24, 2018

UK: the harsh reality of being released from prison after more than a decade behind bars

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Europe United Kingdom

The prisoner served more than 10 years behind bars and was then faced with re-building her life.

December 24, 2018

Belgium: les détenus pourront bientôt téléphoner pour des prix moins élevés

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Europe Social ties Belgium

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December 24, 2018

Venezuela: Bachelet podría conocer situación de las cárceles

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America South America Venezuela

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December 24, 2018

United Kingdom: campaigners call for landline phones in prison cells

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Europe Social ties United Kingdom

There are calls for landline phones to be installed in prison cells in Scotland to help keep families connected.

December 23, 2018

Argentina: Mujeres ya están al frente de las cárceles bonaerenses más temidas

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America South America Argentina

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December 23, 2018

UK: Prisons ban Christmas cards with glitter due to drugs epidemic in jails

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Europe Drugs United Kingdom

Measure in England and Wales aims to combat problem of post being sprayed with drugs.

December 22, 2018

USA: ‘Me rociaron con gas pimienta más de 10 veces mientras estaba en el sistema de justicia juvenil’

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United States

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December 20, 2018

Ukraine: little has changed

Testimonial

Europe Ukraine

Sergiy was incarcerated during four years between 2001 and 2005 in the prison of Cherkasy.For Prison Insider, he describes how a day used to be like for him.

December 20, 2018

Australia: why are our prisons full of domestic violence victims?

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Oceania Violence Australia

The number of women in prison is continuing to soar, new data shows. But advocates warn we can’t arrest the increase until we start properly addressing domestic abuse, which affects an overwhelming majority of women behind bars.

December 20, 2018

Prisons

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Europe Material conditions Overcrowding France

From 2011 to 2014, Grégoire Korganow went inside some 20 corrections facilities and photographed everything he saw: inside the cells, courtyard, visitation booths, showers, solitary confinement block, and more, by day and by night.

December 19, 2018

Spain: una huelga encubierta de funcionarios de prisiones pone al límite 15 cárceles

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Europe Spain

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December 19, 2018

USA: here’s what the prison reform bill actually does — and doesn’t do

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United States

Prison reform advocates are hailing the Senate passage of the bipartisan First Step Act as a watershed moment for American criminal justice, which could positively impact the lives of thousands of federal prisoners.

December 19, 2018

Colombia: cárceles de Manizales registran un cierre de año negativo

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America South America Colombia

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December 18, 2018

Comores: nouvelles peines de prison infligées à des membres de l'opposition

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Africa Comoros

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December 18, 2018

USA: a poacher who killed hundreds of deer was sentenced to repeatedly watch ‘Bambi’

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United States

Authorities have no idea how many deer the Berry family and their associates illegally killed in the fields and forests of southern Missouri over the past decade, but the details of their poaching operation would make any animal lover’s stomach turn.

December 17, 2018

France: lutter contre le danger de la radicalisation en prison [video]

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Europe Discipline Religion France

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December 17, 2018

Finland: on a visité une "prison ouverte"

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Europe Facilities Finland

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