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February 27, 2017

République Dominicaine : le quotidien de Christophe Naudin dans la prison de Najayo

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Dominican Republic

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February 26, 2017

Thirteen escape in prison break near Manila

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Philippines

At least 13 ‘high-value’ detainees facing drug charges stormed out of Philippine jail by cutting through metal grilles.

February 24, 2017

Kenya: location determines how the law treats you, audit finds

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Africa Kenya

Where you live goes a long way to determining whether you get justice or not, a new audit of the criminal justice system reveals.

February 23, 2017

United Kingdom: worst offenders could die in jail under plans for whole-life sentences to be examined by MSPs

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Long-term prisoners United Kingdom

Scotland’s worst criminals would die in jail under plans for whole-life sentences to be examined by MSPs.

February 23, 2017

Some inmates to get better conditions after overpopulation in Turkish jails due to Gülen case arrests

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Material conditions Overcrowding Turkey

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February 23, 2017

Chopped off heads, torn out hearts in brutal Brazil gang war

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Brazil

Shortly after midnight on New Year’s Eve, hundreds of inmates watched from a Manaus prison yard as the sky lit up with fireworks, paid for by the gangs that dominate the jail system. The revelry continued well into the next day, and inmates celebrated with their wives and girlfriends. But then the…

February 23, 2017

Finland: rise in foreign inmates increases need for digital leap in prisons

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Europe Finland

A 56-percent increase in the number of foreign prisoners in the last decade has caused Finnish detention facilities to develop their electronic communicating capacity. Digital services have been piloted in prisons for some six months.

February 23, 2017

Ukraine: Rada on its way to amend so-called "Savchenko law"

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Europe Ukraine

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has adopted in the first reading the amendments to Article 72 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine on a calculation of prison term actually served by convicts, as the UNIAN correspondent.

February 23, 2017

Cambodia: prison numbers jump 20 percent

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Asia Overcrowding Cambodia

Cambodia’s already swollen prison population leapt by more than 20 percent last year, according to the Ministry of Interior’s annual report, which acknowledged the influx has caused “serious challenges” with overcrowding, and revealed one-third of inmates are in pre-trial detention.

February 23, 2017

Burkina Faso : MACO: Formation de 150 détenus en batiment et travaux publics

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Africa Burkina Faso

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February 22, 2017

Guatemala : Trasladan de cárcel a 164 pandilleros del Barrio 18

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Central America and the Caribbean Guatemala

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February 22, 2017

La Belgique est le pays d'Europe avec le plus fort taux de suicide en prison

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Europe Suicide Belgium

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February 22, 2017

Do the Dutch have the answer to UK prison crisis?

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United Kingdom

The Prisons and Court Reform Bill is set to be published amid reports of a crisis - but is the answer to lock fewer offenders up? It’s the quietness that hits you first.

February 22, 2017

Guyana gets funds to help reduce prison overcrowding, boost agriculture, improve business environment, improve health

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Health Overcrowding Guyana

Guyana has tapped into a US$8 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to help reduce prison overcrowding and speed up the delivery of justice, the Finance Ministry said in a statement.

February 22, 2017

Mass funeral held for 20 Haitians who died in dismal prison

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Central America and the Caribbean Haiti

Relatives wailed in grief or stared stoically as flowers were placed on 20 caskets at a mass funeral Tuesday for the latest group of inmates who died miserably in Haiti’s largest prison, most without ever having been convicted of any crime.

February 22, 2017

Algérie : 17 nouvelles prisons

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Africa Algeria

Le Directeur général de l’Administration pénitentiaire et de réinsertion, Mokhtar Felioune, a annoncé mardi à Blida l’entrée en fonction en 2017 de 17 établissements pénitentiaires en remplacement de ceux créés avant 1962.

February 22, 2017

Uzbek dissident released after 18 years in prison

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Asia Uzbekistan

Uzbek dissident Muhammad Bekjanov, one of the world’s longest-jailed journalists, was released from prison on Wednesday after serving 18 years in prison, his relatives and a local rights group said. Bekjanov, 63, a former editor of the opposition newspaper Erk, was sentenced to 15 years in prison i…

February 22, 2017

UK prisons 'holding child inmates in solitary confinement against UN torture rules'

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Discipline Torture United Kingdom

Investigation exposes serious allegations of international human rights breaches at young offenders institutions in the UK. British prisons are holding child inmates in solitary confinement in an alleged breach of UN torture rules and British law, The Independent has found. Lawyers in one case have…

February 22, 2017

Prisoner’s death sparks tension at Malawi’s maximum prison

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Africa Malawi

Tensions are running high in the Malawi’s maximum prison facility in Zomba at the moment after the death of a prison inmate Elisa Mato who was reportedly beaten to death by warders.

February 21, 2017

Grande-Bretagne : une prison privatisée confiée à Sodexo fait scandale

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United Kingdom

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February 21, 2017

Fleury-Mérogis: la surpopulation s’aggrave dans la plus grande prison d’Europe

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Europe Overcrowding France

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February 21, 2017

De sas en sas : une journée particulière en prison

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Culture France

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February 20, 2017

Australia: NSW government to 'rapid-build' jails

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Oceania Facilities Australia

With NSW prisons bursting at the seams, the state government will “rapid-build” a 400-inmate high-security jail at the Wellington Correctional Centre, with the facility to open later this year.

February 20, 2017

Haiti : 'this is hell'. Inside Haitian jail where prisoners starve to death and defecate on floors of overcrowded cells

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Central America and the Caribbean Overcrowding Haiti

Dozens of emaciated men with sunken cheeks and protruding ribs lie silently in an infirmary at Haiti’s largest prison, most too weak to stand. The corpse of an inmate who died miserably of malnutrition is shrouded beneath a plastic tarp.