Information, topic by topic, on prisons across the world

May 2, 2018

UK: solitary confinement of children and young people

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Discipline United Kingdom

Last week, in a joint statement, the British Medical Association (BMA), the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health called for an end to the solitary confinement of children and young people held in UK detention facilities.

May 2, 2018

UK: MoJ postpones plans to reduce female prison population

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Women United Kingdom

Strategy to cut numbers being jailed for non-violent offences was to be launched this month. A multimillion pound government strategy to reduce the number of women being jailed for non-violent offences has been postponed, the Guardian can disclose.

May 2, 2018

France : maison d’arrêt de Fresnes, retour sur les conditions indignes de vie en détention

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Europe Justice Material conditions France

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May 1, 2018

UK: how prison changes people

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United Kingdom

Longer and harsher prison sentences can mean that prisoners’ personalities will be changed in ways that make their reintegration difficult, finds Christian Jarrett. Day after day, year after year, imagine having no space to call your own, no choice over who to be with, what to eat, or where to go.…

May 1, 2018

Brasil: el 65,7 % de las cárceles presenta hacinamiento

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Overcrowding Brazil

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May 1, 2018

France : "Revenants, la prison de Clairvaux entre ombres et lumières

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Culture Europe France

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May 1, 2018

Aux Etats-Unis, la "gay panic" permet toujours d'éviter la prison pour le meurtre d'un homosexuel

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Justice United States

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April 30, 2018

USA: women in prison take home economics, while men take carpentry

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Women United States

Decades after a government report on deep inequity in the vocational offerings of the nation’s criminal-justice system, little has changed.

April 26, 2018

France : bébés en prison, le dilemme des mères détenues

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Europe France

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April 25, 2018

France : cinquième suicide d’un détenu en trois mois dans la prison de Fleury-Mérogis

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Europe Suicide France

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April 25, 2018

España: Reflexiones sobre la prisión permanente revisable ¿Debe derogarse?

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Justice Spain

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April 25, 2018

USA: female incarceration reveals a cruel and broken justice system

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Women United States

Although boys are disproportionately represented in juvenile and criminal proceedings, girls are the fastest-growing segment of the juvenile population and are often in the system for reasons very different from boys. A groundbreaking report released in 2015 unearthed a “sexual abuse to prison pipe…

April 25, 2018

Netherlands: the unique way the Dutch treat mentally ill prisoners

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Health Mental health Netherlands

In the Netherlands, criminals with mental illness are treated completely differently to many other countries. Melissa Hogenboom visits a Dutch prison to find out how.

April 24, 2018

USA: the première of “O.G.,” the film made inside an Indiana Prison

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Culture United States

The film “O.G.,” set and shot in a prison in Indiana, using inmates and guards as cast and crew, had its première on Friday night, as part of the Tribeca Film Festival

April 24, 2018

Belgique : 24 gardiens de la prison de Forest et une directrice jugés en correctionnelle pour maltraitance

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Europe Belgium

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April 23, 2018

Britain's prison crisis caused by "poor political decisions" by Conservatives and huge cuts, former head of jails says

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United Kingdom

Former director-general of HM Prison Service says violence driven by ‘budget cuts, poor political decisions and frequent changes of political direction’

April 23, 2018

USA: 1 dead and 11 treated for overdoses at Northern California prison

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Drugs United States

Suspected drug overdoses at a Northern California prison over the weekend left one inmate dead and sent 11 others for treatment, authorities said Monday.

April 22, 2018

États-Unis : prison, chiffres

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United States

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April 22, 2018

USA : un système carcéral violent et inégalitaire

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Torture Violence United States

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April 21, 2018

Brasil: motín con rehenes en una cárcel tras la fuga de 40 presos

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Protest Violence Brazil

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April 21, 2018

UK: mental health facilities ‘seriously deficient’

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Health Mental health United Kingdom

Mental Health Reform says it is “deeply concerned” that some vulnerable people still live in “mini-institutions” where there is no respect for their privacy or dignity.

April 20, 2018

France : le recours aux bracelets électroniques va s'intensifier

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Europe Alternatives France

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April 20, 2018

Torture, forced disappearance, arbitrary detention in Turkey, says U.S.

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Europe Middle East Torture Turkey

“Alleged torture of detainees in official custody, allegations of forced disappearance; arbitrary arrest and detention under the state of emergency of tens of thousands” are among the most significant human rights abuses of Turkey, the U.S. State Department noted in its annual Human Rights Practice…

April 20, 2018

USA: is rural America getting tired of tough-on-crime policies?

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United States

Across political, racial, and geographic lines, more Americans seem ready to move past the age of mass incarceration.