March 2018
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Portfolio
Europe
Health
Mental health
Drugs
Material conditions
Belarus
In Belarus, people are locked up to wean them off alcohol. These are strange places where time seems to have stopped after the fall of Soviet Union.
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South America
Argentina
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.
Source — La Nacion
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Death penalty
United States
After trying unsuccessfully for months to obtain lethal injection drugs, Oklahoma officials said Wednesday they plan to use nitrogen gas to execute inmates once the state resumes using the death penalty, marking the first time a U.S. state would use the gas to carry out capital punishment.
Source — TIME
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Violence
Bolivia
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Source — CNN español
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Violence
Bolivia
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.
Source — El Heraldo
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Pre-trial detention
Asia
Torture
Vietnam
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — ACAT
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The Franklin Masacre Survivors
Portfolio
South America
Health
Protest
Violence
Venezuela
Carlos Hernandez photographed the men who survived Franklin Masacre’s reign over the General Penitentiary of Venezuela.
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Torture
United States
An update on conditions in prisons in Florida from Kevin “Rashid” Johnson.
Source — It's going down
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Europe
Switzerland
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Le matin
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Culture
Spain
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Source — Diario de Mallorca
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Central America and the Caribbean
Protest
Violence
Honduras
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Source — Clarin mundo
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Europe
Switzerland
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Le temps
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Europe
Belgium
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Le vif
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About the things we keep
Insights
Culture
To tell the untellable Ricardo has turned to writing.
He has been imprisoned for nine years in Colombia and has decided to share with Prison Insider the torments of a life behind bars. His pen helps him reflect on the questions that obsess those deprived of liberty: abandonment by loved ones, fear…
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Europe
Protest
France
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — défenseur des droits
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Deplorable prison conditions in Ukraine
Analysis
Report
On February 7, 2018, NGO Ukraine Without Torture made a monitoring visit to the Ladyzhin Correctional Colony (No. 39), located in the Vinnytsia region (west border). They were accompanied by members of the Department for the implementation of the national preventive mechanism and representatives of…
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