Violence
Violence
Social ties
United Kingdom
Thousands of prisoners will be able to make calls from their cells, as part of government plans to reduce violence and crime in prisons in England and Wales.
The move is part of a £30m package of measures to be announced later today by Justice Secretary David Gauke. The scheme, already in place at…
South America
Protest
Violence
Venezuela
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South America
Violence
Ecuador
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South America
Protest
Violence
Venezuela
Riot after alleged torture casts shadow over campaign of Nicolás Maduro before Sunday’s vote
An overlooked tragedy
Analysis
Europe
Suicide
Overcrowding
Violence
France
After Slovenia, our country has the highest rate of prison suicide in Europe. How can this be? There are numerous causes, but they can be examined by asking two questions: who is being punished? How are they being punished? The first one is a penal policy question; the second a prison policy one.
Torture
Violence
United States
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South America
Protest
Violence
Brazil
A number of inmates at a jail in the northern Brazilian city of Belem have died during an attempted mass breakout.
Central America and the Caribbean
Protest
Violence
Mexico
VERACRUZ, Mexico — Six police officers died on Sunday from smoke inhalation after prisoners started a fire while resisting an effort to transfer dangerous inmates out of a prison in Mexico’s Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, the authorities said.