June 21, 2017 Australia: most difficult prisoners mentoring most vulnerable in trial programme News Oceania Australia Matthew Taylor is the first to admit he wasn’t a model prisoner during his time behind bars at Canberra’s Alexander Maconochie Centre. “I was getting into a lot of trouble in here, fighting with officers, fighting with other detainees, using ice a lot and I got to the point where I was going to kil…
June 21, 2017 Bali escape: prisoners not found in waterlogged tunnel out of Kerobokan, police say News Indonesia Police have confirmed no prisoners have been found in a tunnel that is believed to be have been used by four escapee inmates at the Kerobokan jail. There had been fears that the men, including one Australian, may be stuck inside the muddied hole which had filled with water.
June 20, 2017 'Buried alive': the old men stuck in Britain’s prisons News United Kingdom They can’t manage the stairs, so they can’t exercise, or go to classes. They’re afraid to shower in case they fall. The ones with dementia don’t even know where they are. Is this any way to deal with elderly offenders?
June 20, 2017 France, prison de Perpignan : encore des surveillants de prison agressés par un détenu News Europe Protest Violence France This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
June 20, 2017 China: Around 120,000 given over five years in prison for drug crimes since 2012 News Asia Drugs China Nearly 120,000 criminals charged with drug offences were handed sentences longer than five years by Chinese courts in the last five years, data released by the nation’s top court Tuesday shows.
June 20, 2017 United States: Alaska officials work to reform solitary confinement system News North America Discipline United States “Segregation is known to be psychologically detrimental to those who are in there for any length of time,” Bruce Busby, the state department’s director of institutions said.
June 20, 2017 Indonésie : quatre étrangers s'évadent d'une prison de Bali au moyen d'un tunnel News Asia Indonesia This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
June 20, 2017 United Kingdom: 'buried alive': the old men stuck in Britain’s prisons News United Kingdom Dave was 13 when he got his first custodial sentence. It was 1962 and he had been caught stealing from cars. That sentence was followed by others: he can’t quite remember how many. Gamely, he tried to count them: “I think it was 14 or 15,” he finally offered. He wasn’t always put away – at least se…
June 20, 2017 Indonesia cracks down on terrorism with new laws and joint patrols News 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 Philippine…
June 20, 2017 China: police-run detention centres are a 'human rights disaster': rights lawyers News 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 replacemen…
June 20, 2017 Kuwait: the country grants amnesty to Ethiopians prisoners News Africa Middle East Kuwait Amir of the State of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah has granted amnesty for Ethiopians convicted of various judicial sentences and currently in prison in that country, Ethiopia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday in a statement.
June 20, 2017 China : Draft law on detention centers won’t help reduce police torture, critics say News Asia Torture China Source - Caixin Global A draft of China’s first-ever law on criminal detention centers calls for better access to bail and medical care for detainees, but legal experts say it will have a limited impact on reducing police torture.
June 20, 2017 Canada: l’isolement dans les prisons canadiennes sera limité à 15 jours News North America Discipline Canada This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
June 19, 2017 Nepal: women in jail News Women Asia Nepal A woman from Palpa is currently serving her term at the Central Jail in Sundhara, Kathmandu for killing her own child. She is mentally disturbed. “She had beaten her child for playing with water. How could a mother kill her own child? Fate locked her up,” said a fellow inmate at the jail. “I myself…
June 19, 2017 Ukraine: anti-torture committee concerned about police ill-treatment and poor conditions of detention of remand and life-sentenced prisoners News Europe Torture Ukraine In the report on its November 2016 visit to Ukraine, published today, the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) expresses serious concern about the frequency of allegations of ill-treatment by police officers (such as slap…
June 19, 2017 Canada: liberal government to impose 15-day limits on solitary confinement News North America Discipline Canada Nearly a decade after teenager Ashley Smith died by self-strangulation in a solitary confinement cell, the Liberal government has introduced a bill that would place new restrictions on indefinite solitary confinement in federal prisons but falls short of the expectations of some prison-rights advoc…
June 18, 2017 Sudan: thirst, poor food in South Darfur prison News Material conditions Sudan Inmates of the Korea Prison, south of Nyala, capital of South Darfur, reportedly suffer from thirst and poor services, especially meals, during the fasting month of Ramadan.
June 18, 2017 Sudan: thirst, poor food in South Darfur prison News Material conditions Sudan Inmates of the Korea Prison, south of Nyala, capital of South Darfur, reportedly suffer from thirst and poor services, especially meals, during the fasting month of Ramadan.
June 18, 2017 Sri Lanka: Drug menace: What is going wrong? News Drugs Sri Lanka Department of Prisons’ statistics show that in 2015, nearly half, or 46.4 percent, of prisoners convicted were drug offenders. This means that, of the 24,086 who were sentenced, a massive 11,171 went to jail for narcotics crimes. That is the tip of the proverbial iceberg. The previous year, the per…
June 17, 2017 Philippines: CoA report shows 511% increase in inmates amid drug war News Asia Drugs Philippines This is a 511% increase in congestion that way exceeds the said ideal cell capacity of 20,746. According to the CoA’s annual report on the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) released on June 15, the total number of inmates was up by 30,544 as of Dec. 31, 2016 from the year before.
June 17, 2017 Egypt: Egyptian court recommends death penalty for 30 over assassination of prosecutor News Africa Middle East Egypt A Cairo criminal court on Saturday recommended the death penalty for 30 people convicted of involvement in the 2015 assassination of Egypt’s top prosecutor, the most senior state official killed by militants in recent years.
June 16, 2017 Nigeria: weeping prisoner cries self to freedom News Africa Nigeria Ikechukwu Emmanuel, an inmate of Keffi Medium Security Prisons in Keffi in Nasarawa State, cried himself to freedom on Friday through the help of Prisons Officers Wives Association (PROWA). Mr. Emmanuel, not originally listed to benefit from the assistance of PROWA’s prison decongestion effort, eli…
June 16, 2017 New Zealand: corrections officers bashed in riot at Christchurch Men's Prison News New Zealand An inmate has admitted bashing prison officers during a riot at Christchurch Men’s Prison in November. Rawiri Graham Richardson, 26, was with a group of prisoners who allegedly attacked the officers after refusing to go back to their cells.
June 16, 2017 Australia: Queensland's prison policy is 'stupid', says former chief as he calls for drugs rethink News Oceania Drugs Australia Queensland has almost 8,000 prisoners – or 206 per 100,000 adult population – a rate which Hamburger said was “about a third bigger than Victoria’s, for example, and that’s just stupid”, he said. Hamburger said the rate compared badly with European countries. Sweden, for example, has a rate of 53 p…
