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United States: nearly 1,000 inmates, more than 200 staff in Wisconsin prisons have tested positive for coronavirus

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After nearly flattening for about three months, positive coronavirus tests in Wisconsin prisons are back on the rise at rates worse than ever. More than 600 inmates in state-run prisons tested positive for coronavirus in the past month, bringing the total to 953 since the beginning of the pandemic. Further,…

Source — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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Estados Unidos: informes profundamente alarmantes sobre esterilización forzosa de mujeres detenidas por el ICE

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North America Women Foreign prisoners Access to legal rights Torture Violence United States

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United States: the expensive burden of parole, probation unjustly places people in a second prison

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North America Justice United States
When President Donald Trump commuted Alice Marie Johnson’s life sentence in 2018, many observers assumed that the grandmother was fully free. What they didn’t realize at the time was that Johnson, who was convicted of a first-time, nonviolent drug offense, still wore the “invisible shackle” of probation.

Source — USA today

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United States: can Kentucky keep charging prisoners for their jail stay if they are found not guilty?

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Kentucky State law allows county jails to charge prisoners a daily fee during their stay while fighting their case. But what happens when the person is found not guilty of the charges and gets released? According to a February 14, 2020 ruling by the Kentucky Court of Appeals, even if the state throws…

Source — Prison Legal News

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USA: après des SOS lancés par des détenus, une prison recouvre les fenêtres

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Coronavirus North America Health United States

This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: French

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USA: massive COVID-19 outbreak at a southern NM prison hits just one type of inmates — sex offenders. That’s by design.

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Coronavirus North America Health United States
As the coronavirus established a foothold in southern New Mexico’s Otero County Prison Facility in mid-May, state officials quietly moved 39 inmates out of the massive complex near the Texas border to another prison near Santa Fe. The inmates shared something in common: None was a sex offender. In the…

Source — New Mexico In Depth

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USA: abogados, “es probable que haya más contagiados en cárceles”

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Coronavirus North America Health United States

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USA: los ayuntamientos gastan lo mismo en Policía y cárceles que en sanidad y hospitales

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North America United States

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USA: après 17 ans d’interruption, les exécutions fédérales reprennent

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North America Death penalty United States

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USA: les spectaculaires progrès de New York contre l’incarcération massive des Noirs

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North America Justice United States

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USA: after Louisiana women's prison flooded in 2016, temporary dorms inundated with coronavirus

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In one massive room filled with rows of metal bunk beds about an arm’s length apart, 70 women share three toilets and four sinks. There’s no such thing as social distancing inside the female prison dorms that have become inundated with coronavirus cases. The high case numbers have prompted Department…

Source — The advocate

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