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June 20, 2017

Kuwait: the country grants amnesty to Ethiopians prisoners

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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

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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

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America North America Discipline Canada

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June 19, 2017

Nepal: women in jail

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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

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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

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America 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

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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…

June 15, 2017

Iran: parliamentary committee blocks security agencies' attempts to significantly delay death penalty amendment

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Middle East Iran

A Parliamentary committee in Iran has blocked an attempt by security agencies to delay for a year a parliamentary vote on an amendment that could drastically reduce death penalty sentences for drug-related crimes. “Unfortunately, some security and government agencies wrote a letter requesting that…

June 15, 2017

Colombia: prison crisis: prosecution suspends all Medellin arrest warrants

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Colombia

Colombia’s public prosecutor suspended all pending arrest warrants of its office in the country’s second largest city, Medellin, accusing the national prison authority of failing to curb overcrowding. According to Medellin’s prosecutor’s office, it was forced to take the decision due to the “impote…

June 15, 2017

Sweden: Kaj Linna released from prison after podcast sparks retrial

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Europe Sweden

A man who has spent 13 years in prison in Sweden charged with murder has been released after new evidence came to light in a true crime podcast. Spar, hosted by journalists Anton Berg and Martin Johnson and released via podcast platform Acast, has been examining the imprisonment of Kaj Linna for th…

June 15, 2017

Pakistan : Bilawal condemns police torture on young docs

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Asia Torture Pakistan

KARACHI - The Chairman, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has strongly condemned brutal police torture against young doctors in Peshawar.

June 15, 2017

Holland: one dead after fire breaks out in a cell at Scheveningen prison

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Netherlands

One person has been killed after fire broke out in a cell at the high security prison in Scheveningen, news agency ANP said on Thursday.

June 15, 2017

Turkey: jail sentence to UN judge Aydin Sefa Akay

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Europe Middle East Turkey

A Turkish court has sentenced top UN judge Aydin Sefa Akay to more than seven years in jail over alleged ties to a group blamed for a failed coup attempt. The UN war crimes court in The Hague says the move is illegal.

June 15, 2017

Indonesia : behind prison walls [video]

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Asia Indonesia

For the first time ever a film crew was granted full access to Kerobokan jail, which sits in the centre of Bali’s tourist mecca. Foreign Correspondent meets five prisoners who call the space inside these walls home.

June 14, 2017

India: prison riot: 350 inmates fight inside Dum Dum jail

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Asia India

KOLKATA: Around 350 inmates of Dum Dum Central Jail divided themselves into two groups of undertrials and convicts and fought a pitched battle on the jail premises since Tuesday morning. The violence -unprecedented in the recent history of the jail -left at least 13 people injured.

June 14, 2017

Israel: see inside Israel's only female prison

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Women Middle East Israel

In Israel, there are around 25,000 men in prison. Some 14,000 of these are convicted on criminal charges. The rest are incarcerated on security-related charges – and are mostly Palestinian. In comparison, there are just 200 women in prison in the Holy Land. And they’re all in one place – Neve Tirza…

June 14, 2017

United Kingdom: youth prison deemed 'unsafe' less than two years after staff accused of physical abusing children

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United Kingdom

A youth prison that came under fire last year after allegations that staff had physically abused young offenders has been rated inadequate by inspectors. Medway Secure Training Centre, which was previously run by G4S but was taken over by the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) last July, h…