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November 1, 2016

Russia : jailed activist alleges torture, threats in prison letter

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Asia Europe Torture Russia

A jailed Russian opposition activist has accused a prison warden of overseeing the systematic torture of inmates and of threatening to kill him, allegations made in a desperate letter to his wife that he asked her to publish to save his life.

November 1, 2016

Turquie : lettre de prison d'Asli Erdogan

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Europe Turkey

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November 1, 2016

USA : prison lifer turns down parole after 63 years behind bars

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United States

79-year-old who has spent most of his life in a Philadelphia prison has turned down the chance of parole, claiming he should be released outright without any future supervision. The Philadelphia Inquirer examined the case of Joseph Ligon, who has been in prison since the age of 15, reporting that h…

November 1, 2016

Russia activist Ildar Dadin accuses prison of torture

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Asia Europe Torture Russia

Russian officials are investigating claims that a well-known opposition activist has been repeatedly beaten and threatened in prison. Ildar Dadin is serving two and a half years for a series of street protests. He told his lawyer that he had been strung up by his handcuffed wrists, had his head sho…

November 1, 2016

Canada : des prisonniers aspergés de gaz poivrés

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America North America Canada

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October 31, 2016

India: Indian police kill 8 militants who fled from prison

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Asia India

Indian police Monday gunned down eight suspected militants of the banned group Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) in an encounter, hours after they escaped from a high-security prison in the central state of Madhya Pradesh’s capital Bhopal.

October 30, 2016

Yemen: death toll from Saudi-led airstrike on prisons rises to 58

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Middle East Yemen

Security chief says most of those killed were inmates, but Saudi-led coalition says building was command centre for rebel Houthis. The number dead from a Saudi-led coalition airstrike on a prison complex in western Yemen has risen to 58, security officials have said. Abdel-Rahman al-Mansab, a secur…

October 30, 2016

Scandinavie : leçon de décroissance carcérale

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Finland

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October 30, 2016

Canada: solitary confinement is pure torture. I know, I was there

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America North America Discipline Torture Canada

Donald Best is an access to justice advocate and a former Toronto Police Service sergeant who spent 63 days in solitary confinement in 2013-2014.

October 29, 2016

Turkey : Erdogan says death penalty will be soon brought back

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Europe Death penalty Violence Turkey

Thousands of people were arrested after failed coup in July. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the government will soon submit a bill to Parliament to reinstate the death penalty amid calls for the execution of the plotters of a failed coup in July. Addressing crowds in Ankara on Saturday…

October 28, 2016

USA : Obama commutes 98 more prison sentences

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Justice United States

With less than three months left in his term, President Barack Obama commuted the prison sentences of 98 people on Thursday. This is just one of POTUS’ rounds of commutations this year. In August, he commuted the sentences of 111 people.

October 27, 2016

UK : prison violence epidemic partly due to staff cuts, MoJ admits

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Violence United Kingdom

Self-inflicted deaths at a record high and assaults rise 34% as observers condemn “toxic mix of violence, death and misery”. The Ministry of Justice has explicitly acknowledged that staff cuts are a factor in the rising tide of violence in prisons in England and Wales.

October 27, 2016

Sénégal : des prisonniers boulangers

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Africa Senegal

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October 27, 2016

États-Unis : Ndume Olatushani, "tant que je vivrai, je me battrai contre la peine de mort"

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Death penalty Violence United States

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October 27, 2016

France : plan prisons, les millions d'euros que les politiques s'arrachent

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Europe France

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October 27, 2016

Canada : la condition des détenus au Centre de détention d'Ottawa-Carleton s'améliore

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America North America Overcrowding Canada

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October 26, 2016

Haiti : inside job? Guard under suspicion after 173 inmates break out of Haiti jail

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America Central America and the Caribbean Haiti

A guard at a Haiti prison is suspected of helping 173 inmates escape from a prison over the weekend.

October 26, 2016

France : prison, la grande muette ? [radio]

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Europe France

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October 26, 2016

UK : criminals under 25 should not go to adult prison, MPs say

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United Kingdom

‘The Ministry of Justice has not clearly articulated to us why it has not acted decisively to develop a systematic new approach to young adults, given the weight of evidence’. Young offenders are still developing neurologically up to age of 25 and should be kept out of adult prisons, a group of MPs…

October 26, 2016

France to scrap special prison wings for dangerous jihadists

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Europe Discipline Justice Facilities Religion France

France’s Minister of Justice, Jean-Jacques Urvoas, announced on Tuesday the end of French prison wings for radicalized inmates, promising a new “regime” instead. France has five prisons with experimental de-radicalisation wings for dangerous Islamist extremists, and all these units will be shut dow…

October 26, 2016

New Zealand : inmates at South Auckland prison locked down since Saturday over 'operational situation'

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New Zealand

Up to 80 inmates at Wiri prison have been on lock-down since Saturday, 1 NEWS can reveal. The high security jail is run by Serco, a private British company. Inmates have told families they are frustrated at being locked in their cells since Saturday, without being given an explanation why. They had…

October 25, 2016

USA : inmates explain how they would run prisons

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United States

Every year, countless reports on how to make prisons more rehabilitative are published by think tanks, scholars, and advocates. Some of them rely on interviews with prisoners, while others focus on data and documents. But a new report on how Texas prisons can improve is unique: It was written solel…

October 24, 2016

La Turquie est devenue la championne d’Europe de l’emprisonnement

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Europe Turkey

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October 24, 2016

Argentina : María Eugenia Vidal removió a toda la cúpula del Servicio Penitenciario Bonaerense

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America South America Justice Argentina

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