Asia
Asia
Drugs
Death penalty
Indonesia
In 2015, the President of Indonesia declared a war on drugs. The death penalty became one of the major tools of this campaign. Albert Wirya works for LBH Masyarakat. We asked him about the use of the death penalty and the efforts being made to abolish it. Interview.
Prisons in the eye of the storm
Analysis
Thematic paper
Crises
North America
South America
Asia
Europe
Oceania
Health
Mental health
Material conditions
Facilities
Overcrowding
Violence
Prisons, many of which are old and located in vulnerable areas, are being severely affected by climate change. What are prison administrations doing in response to these disasters? Overview.
Africa
Crises
Asia
Europe
Access to legal rights
Justice
Mary Lawlor is the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders since 2020. She tells us how her work, despite its limits, can help them, and reflects on the criminalisation they face around the world.
Asia
Justice
Overcrowding
Cambodia
The Ministry of Interior’s General Department of Prisons (GDP) is planning to hold a forum with relevant ministries, embassies, and human rights NGOs to find a comprehensive solution to ongoing overcrowding issues in prisons, as the number of incarcerated people continues to rise.
Women
Asia
Long-term prisoners
Health
Torture
Violence
Work
North Korea
Between early 2020 and August 2022, there were approximately 40 deaths among the 500 or so female inmates serving life sentences at the camp.
Asia
Justice
Material conditions
Protest
Violence
Myanmar (Burma)
The 13 prisoners have been held in solitary confinement since they were targeted in a crackdown on unrest more than a month ago.
Asia
Foreign prisoners
Material conditions
Japan
“We don’t really give them special treatment just because they are foreign nationals,” said Atsushi Takada, an official at the prison. “But since the environment and culture in which they were brought up is too different from that of Japan’s, we need to treat them differently.”
Surviving
Analysis
Inside Outside
Africa
North America
South America
Asia
Europe
Middle East
Material conditions
Prison Insider, represented by Clara Grisot, contributed twelve compositions to the book InsideOutside to articulate, in a few words, the current challenges of prison life. Sixth piece: food
Intersection with poverty
Analysis
Inside Outside
Africa
North America
South America
Asia
Europe
Middle East
Justice
Material conditions
Prison Insider, represented by Clara Grisot, contributed twelve compositions to the book InsideOutside to articulate, in a few words, the current challenges of prison life. Fifth piece: Injustice.
Asia
Health
Mental health
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Violence
Nepal
Prisoners, especially those in judicial custody, face frequent attacks from older inmates.
Enough is enough
Analysis
Inside Outside
Africa
North America
South America
Asia
Europe
Middle East
Overcrowding
Prison Insider, represented by Clara Grisot, contributed twelve compositions to the book InsideOutside to articulate, in a few words, the current challenges of prison life. Fourth piece: overcrowding.
Women
Asia
Rehabilitation
Malaysia
Charin Promwichit said the ‘Penjanaan Pendapatan Bagi Wanita Bangkit Bersasar’ (Webawa) programme will involve female detainees on parole and former female prisoners who are on licenced release, those undergoing prison programmes, former women ODP and OBB as well as wives of prison inmates.