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January 2, 2017

India: video evidence of corruption in various jails in Maharashtra

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Asia India

The Anti-Corruption Bureau is in possession of video evidence of corruption in various jails in Maharashtra. The clips were submitted by a person who was not allowed to meet his relative lodged in Thane Jail until he paid a bribe to the jail staffers. Taken aback by the demand for the bribe, scienc…

January 2, 2017

Brazil prison riot kills at least 56 in Amazonas state

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Protest Brazil

A riot in an overcrowded prison in northern Brazil has left at least 56 inmates dead, many of them decapitated, officials say.

January 2, 2017

Encombrement dans les prisons tunisiennes: Vers la révision du code pénal et l'adoption de peines alternatives?

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Africa Tunisia

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January 1, 2017

France : des détenus refusent de regagner leurs cellules à la prison de Saintes

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Europe France

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January 1, 2017

Gunmen free inmates at Bahrain prison

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Middle East Protest Bahrain

Gunmen armed with automatic rifles and pistols stormed a Bahraini prison on Sunday, killing a police officer and releasing 10 inmates convicted on terrorism charges, police said. The attack on Jaw Prison represents a significant escalation of the simmering unrest that has gripped the island nation…

December 31, 2016

USA: Massachussets unlawfully isolates mentally ill inmates

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Mental health United States

One inmate, diagnosed with bipolar disorder, became so distraught after months in the prison’s isolation unit that he began talking to himself and counting compulsively. Another, who suffers from schizoaffective disorder, declined so much in isolation that he smeared himself with feces.

December 30, 2016

Colombie : le laboratoire carcéral de l’oncle Sam

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America South America Discipline Drugs Facilities Colombia

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December 29, 2016

Turquie : Asli Erdogan est sortie de prison

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Europe Turkey

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December 29, 2016

Nigeria death row inmates secretly executed

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Africa Death penalty Nigeria

Three convicted criminals on death row for about two decades have been secretly executed in the first hangings in Nigeria since 2013, human rights lawyers and a fellow inmate said Thursday.

December 29, 2016

Congo-Brazzaville : fusillade dans la prison de l'opposant Paulin Makaya

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Africa Violence Congo - Brazzaville

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December 29, 2016

USA : prison population shrinks to smallest in a decade

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United States

Efforts to cut number of nonviolent offenders contributed to roughly 2% drop in 2015. The U.S. prison population in 2015 fell to the lowest level since 2005, fueled in part by the federal push to reduce the number of nonviolent drug offenders behind bars and state policies aimed at shorter sentence…

December 28, 2016

Inside Colombia’s hottest new restaurant where the inmates of a women’s prison are in charge

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Women Colombia

Visitors are flocking to a new gourmet restaurant in Cartagena with a difference; it’s located inside the San Diego women’s prison and the inmates in pink turbans cook and serve the food. Restaurante Interno opened in December and has already attracted a strong turnout in the tourist town. Visitors…

December 28, 2016

USA : prisons basically ignore the Americans with Disabilities Act

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United States

Prisons across the U.S. routinely flout the Americans With Disabilities Act, subjecting thousands of inmates with physical and mental health problems to painful and sometimes humiliating conditions, according to watchdog groups, inmates, corrections officials, and a former Justice Department offici…

December 28, 2016

In Egypt, even helping street children can land you in prison

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Africa Middle East Egypt

“She has read a lot of books,” says Basel Hijazi about his sister Aya. “Novels do help her escape the reality she is living.” The “reality” he’s referring to, others might call a nightmare. Aya Hijazi, who turns 30 in January, has been in an Egyptian prison since May 2014.

December 28, 2016

USA : 6 inmates in a Tennessee prison escaped through a broken toilet

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United States

Six inmates escaped from a Tennessee jail through a broken toilet early Christmas morning, the Cocke County Sheriff’s Office told KOMO News. The police are still searching for one of the inmates. The other five were captured shortly after they escaped.

December 28, 2016

Belgique : la prison de Haren obtient son permis de construire

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Europe Belgium

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December 28, 2016

Es 2016 el año con más periodistas en prisión

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Turkey

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December 27, 2016

“3000 nuits” de Mai Masri : femmes en résistance dans les prisons israëliennes

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Culture Women Middle East Israel

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December 27, 2016

Afrique du Sud : trois morts dans une mutinerie en prison

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Protest Violence South Africa

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December 23, 2016

USA : Wilson County man who spent 31 years in prison not recommended for exoneration

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United States

A Wilson County man who served 31 years in prison on a rape and burglary conviction before DNA evidence cleared him of the crime was not recommended for exoneration by the Tennessee Board of Parole on Tuesday.

December 22, 2016

Guatemala : Pérez Molina y Baldetti ejercen poder desde la cárcel

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America Central America and the Caribbean Guatemala

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December 20, 2016

France : des prisons vulnérables aux incendies

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Europe France

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December 19, 2016

Antigua's prisoners face rough conditions in colonial-era jail

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Material conditions Antigua & Barbuda

There is no running water, educational classes are suspended because infectious diseases have scared off the teachers and almost 400 inmates are squeezed into a site intended for 150 - minus one who escaped over the weekend. It is a Monday morning at 1735, Antigua and Barbuda’s national prison, whi…

December 19, 2016

UK : government was warned two months earlier Birmingham prison riot

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Violence United Kingdom

Ministers were told urgent action was needed to protect staff and prisoners amid growing violence in prisons. The government was warned two months before a riot at HMP Birmingham involving hundreds of prisoners that the prevalence of psychoactive drugs meant urgent action was needed to prevent atta…