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Coronavirus: Prison Fever / 2021
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The virus has not stopped at prison gates. What measures are taken to guarantee the safety of all prisoners and prison staff? What are the consequences of the pandemic on the living conditions in prisons? Here is an overview. — Update 31/12/2021
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Jamaican citizens account for more than half the total number of Caribbean citizens now incarcerated in United States (US) prisons.
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Massachusetts’ prison system faces a federal lawsuit challenging how it provides inmates with opioid addiction medications.
USA: Trump makes the most important anti-hunger programm harder to access for people leaving prison
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Under a new rule announced yesterday, the Trump administration expects to slash 688,000 from the rolls of people receiving short-term food assistance.
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Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said Friday that he’s suspended a policy that allowed prison officials to strip search an 8-year-old girl who was visiting her father.
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Abu Zubaydah was captured by US forces after a gun fight in Faisalabad, Pakistan, in March 2002. US officials incorrectly believed the Saudi Arabian citizen was a member of al-Qaida and transported him to a secret US-run prison, known as a black site, in Thailand.
USA: quand la prison fait payer aux détenus la lecture d’ebooks dans le domaine public
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USA: les exécutions fédérales ne reprendront pas dans l’immédiat
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Despite years of recommendations focusing on problems in the Delaware Department of Correction’s healthcare system, a report issued Thursday by the state’s largest private healthcare provider found that many have not been addressed.
Take a recommendation from the Pew Charitable Trusts in 2017 that…
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Although there are fewer people in prison than there were a decade ago, costs have surged along with the share of inmates who are older — and sicker.
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Nevada must comply with a recent federal appeals court ruling requiring that inmates receive state-funded gender confirmation surgery.
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Phone calls to family are vital to inmates’ morale and relationships, but many can’t afford the high rates and fees.
USA: "Capitalisme carcéral" : la prison du futur sera partout
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A group of transgender plaintiffs sued the state of Illinois for the right to change their legal name despite past felony convictions.
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Each month, the photographer Bertrand Gaudillère creates an image or chooses one from his archives. Prison Insider sends it to a dozen participants, prisoners around the world.They are in Argentina, in the United States of America, in France, in Switzerland, in Guatemala, in Ukraine, in Colombia, i…
Canada: une cour ontarienne entendra une contestation judiciaire
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Women are the fastest-growing population of inmates in the United States. And what they’re being sentenced for may surprise you.
United States of America: cheese on a trap
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Qwantay will be released in 2034. Prison Insider asked him what his first day in prison was like. This is what he told us.