Europe
Chin up! Let’s escape!
Analysis
Inside Outside
Africa
North America
South America
Asia
Europe
Middle East
Alternatives
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. Twelfth piece: prison break.
Europe
Material conditions
Facilities
Overcrowding
Violence
Finland
Finnish prisons suffer from overcrowding, which has spurred more violence behind bars. This year, new cell blocks are being built at prisons in Helsinki and Kylmäkoski to accommodate 180 incarcerated people.
Europe
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Ireland
Cork Prison has hit yet another overcrowding record, with 423 people in custody today, 120 of them without beds.
Women
Europe
Justice
Health
United Kingdom
Pregnant incarcerated women in England are being handcuffed to prison officers – often male – during intimate vaginal examinations and long, agonising births.
Europe
Health
Mental health
Material conditions
Suicide
Overcrowding
Activities
United Kingdom
A Glasgow prison is “breaching core human rights” and its incarcerated people are “unable to shower daily”, according to a new report on Scottish prisons.
Europe
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Violence
France
As of February 1, French prisons were housing more than 86,000 incarcerated people, despite having a capacity of around 63,000. This brought the occupancy rate to 136.9%. Overcrowding forced 6,596 imprisoned people to sleep on mattresses on the floor.
Asia
Europe
Discipline
Health
Torture
Turkey
High-security prisons known as “well-type” facilities have drawn public criticism in Türkiye due to their severe isolation conditions.
Asia
Elderly prisoners
Europe
Minors
Health
Overcrowding
Turkey
As of February, 407,266 people are incarcerated in 403 prisons, which have a combined official capacity of 304,956, according to CİSST.
Europe
Foreign prisoners
Material conditions
Facilities
Overcrowding
Belgium
Renting capacity abroad is one of the avenues the Belgian government is exploring to tackle overcrowding in the country’s prisons. Exploratory visits have already taken place to Kosovo and Albania.
Asia
Europe
Foreign prisoners
Facilities
Social ties
Russia
Speaking at a meeting of the Russian Ministry of Justice’s collegium, she highlighted frequent appeals from women from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan, who are seeking assistance in transferring their relatives to serve their sentences closer to home.