Health
Africa
Health
Material conditions
Congo - Kinshasa
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Mediapart
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Canada: number of prison workers suffering from PTSD much higher than official stats, union says
News
North America
Health
Canada
Approximately 1 in 20 employees at federal penitentiaries have been diagnosed with stress injuries
Source — CBC News
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Africa
Health
Madagascar
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Source — News Mada
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North America
Women
Health
United States
Three inmates who claim they were sexually abused by a physician at the state women’s prison have filed a federal lawsuit against the doctor and two other medical staffers.
Source — The Oregonian
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Central America and the Caribbean
Health
Material conditions
Haiti
Haiti Children working with other nonprofits, and Haitians to feed 4,200 prisoners living in dismal conditions
Source — The Denver Post
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United States: prisons and jails are forcing inmates to pay a small fortune just to see a doctor
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North America
Health
United States
The fees are designed to discourage inmates from seeking care, which could have dangerous consequences.
Source — Huffpost
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Europe
Health
Drugs
France
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Source — Le Figaro
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Prison Insider's editorial — March 2017
Prison Insider's editorials
South America
Health
Drugs
— By Eliane Martinez.
The history of prisons in the Americas is one of traffic from South to North and North to South: trade of goods, humans and knowledge.
Trade of goods: for 30 years, the drug trade has been ravaging the most vulnerable communities on the American continent. The “war on drugs” policy…
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Africa
Health
Material conditions
Benin
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Source — Le Monde Afrique
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Health
Mental health
United Kingdom
Almost 75% of prisoners are facing delays in being transferred to NHS hospitals to receive urgent treatment for serious mental health problems.
Source — The Guardian
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Central America and the Caribbean
Health
Violence
Haiti
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Source — Le Nouvelliste
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Europe
Health
France
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Source — Le Parisien
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South America
Health
Argentina
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Source — Anfibia
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Africa
Health
Zimbabwe
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Source — New Zimbabwe
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Africa
Health
Congo - Kinshasa
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Source — Radio Okapi
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Health
United States
As the number of older prisoners soars, more inmates are dying in prison of diseases that afflict the elderly, new data from the Department of Justice show.
A total of 3,483 inmates died in state prisons and 444 in federal prisons in 2014, the highest numbers on record since the bureau started counting…
Source — Kaiser Health News
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Health
Mental health
Violence
United States
Secrecy, mistrust and the shadow of interrogation at the American
prison limited doctors’ ability to treat mental illness among detainees.
Dr. Rosecrans, now retired from the Navy, led one of the mental health teams assigned to care for detainees at the island prison over the past 15 years. Some prisoners…
Source — New York Times
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Middle East
Health
Israel
Four Palestinian prisoners continue on hunger strike to demand their freedom from administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial, with two strikers reaching the 30-day mark without food and facing serious deterioration to their health.
Source — Samidoun
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Women
Health
Mental health
United Kingdom
From self-harming in groups to starvation and self-immolation, women are overwhelmingly more likely than men to hurt themselves while incarcerated. So why isn’t the prison system responding?
Maria, 29, is a disability rights activist who uses a wheelchair. She also has borderline personality disorder…
Source — Broadly
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