Minors
Burundi: forbidden to defend
Interview
Africa
Women
Minors
Justice
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Burundi
S. is a lawyer. She works to defend the rights of women and children. She was imprisoned from February 2023 to April 2024 because of her activism. We met her during her visit to Paris (France).
Pre-trial detention
Women
Europe
Minors
Foreign prisoners
LGBTQI
Access to legal rights
Overcrowding
Turkey
The number of incarcerated people in Türkiye’s prisons has reached 420,904. This marks a sevenfold increase from the 59,429 recorded in 2002, the year the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power.
The mechanics of punishment (5/6)
Testimonial
America
Europe
Minors
Access to legal rights
Justice
Violence
Social ties
Alternatives
Prison is not only a place of punishment; it is also a reflection of social divides. Rather than repairing damage, it accentuates inequalities and perpetuates discrimination. To combat this, associations of relatives are establishing themselves as spaces of resistance.
Pre-trial detention
South America
Women
Minors
LGBTQI
Overcrowding
Argentina
The number of incarcerated people held in Argentina’s federal prisons rose 3.2 percent in September from December 2024, according to new data from the Attorney General’s Office.
Africa
Minors
Justice
Health
Mental health
Material conditions
Facilities
Overcrowding
Violence
Nigeria
A Lagos-based non-governmental organisation, Zarephath Aid (ZA), has called for urgent reforms in Nigeria’s justice sector, urging the judiciary and government agencies to go beyond speeches and take decisive steps to decongest correctional facilities, enforce child rights, and curb police excesses…
Crises
South America
Women
Minors
Health
Torture
Violence
Venezuela
The United Nations released a report exposing Venezuela’s deepening rights abuses. Authorities hold 823 political prisoners, including about 100 women and nearly 90 foreign nationals.
Crises
Women
Elderly prisoners
Minors
Middle East
Access to legal rights
Social ties
Israel
Only one in four incarcerated person from Gaza are identified as fighters by Israel’s military intelligence, classified data indicates, with civilians making up the vast majority of Palestinians held without charge or trial in abusive prisons.
Women
Minors
Middle East
Health
Material conditions
Facilities
Social ties
Iran
The incident on August 18 marked the latest decline in conditions at a prison activists have long described as a “cemetery,” a place where Iran sends its most marginalized women to vanish from public life.
Crises
Pre-trial detention
Minors
Middle East
Torture
Violence
Israel
Israeli prisons are a key element of the colonisation mechanism of the Palestinian people. A roundtable on this topic was held at the Assises pour la Palestine in April 2025, with the participation of Prison Insider. Read the highlights of this discussion.
Europe
Minors
Discipline
Mental health
Drugs
Overcrowding
Violence
United Kingdom
The rollout of synthetic pepper spray for use to incapacitate jailed children is “wholly irresponsible” while black and minority imprisoned people are more likely to be subjected to force than white imprisoned people, a watchdog has said.
Crises
Minors
Middle East
Drugs
Death penalty
Social ties
Iran
Iran executed at least 163 imprisoned people in May, marking a 143 percent increase from the 67 executions recorded in May 2024, according to a human rights organization.
Crises
Minors
Middle East
Health
Material conditions
Israel
Several Palestinian advocacy organizations have issued an urgent call to the World Health Organization (WHO), raising alarm over what they describe as a growing health and humanitarian crisis inside Israeli prisons.
Central America and the Caribbean
Minors
Justice
Health
Mental health
Material conditions
Violence
Trinidad & Tobago
A High Court judge awarded more than $3 million in compensation to a brother and sister after ruling that their constitutional rights were violated when they were unlawfully detained in adult prison facilities while they were still minors.
Crises
Minors
Middle East
Long-term prisoners
Health
Mental health
Torture
Israel
Israeli authorities released 23-year-old Ahmad Manasra from Nafha Prison in the Negev Desert, ending 10 years of imprisonment. Ahmad Manasra’s lawyer told Al Mayadeen that his client was released in a highly fragile mental state.
Women
Asia
Minors
Social ties
Rehabilitation
Pakistan
The Sindh government intends to build special hostels to provide secure accommodation facilities to former incarcerated female to help their drive to gain economic independence in their lives after release from jail.
Crises
Pre-trial detention
Minors
Middle East
Justice
Health
Overcrowding
Torture
Israel
Detained Palestinian have come forward with harrowing accounts of abuse by Israeli military and prison staff in a new BBC investigation featuring testimonies from former imprisoned people recently released in Gaza.
Crises
Pre-trial detention
Minors
Middle East
Health
Violence
Israel
Seventeen-year-old Walid Ahmad, who had been held for six months without being charged, suffered from extreme malnutrition, and also showed signs of inflammation of the colon and scabies, said a report written by Dr. Daniel Solomon.
Crises
Pre-trial detention
Women
Minors
Middle East
Foreign prisoners
Health
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Rehabilitation
Lebanon
Based on 2024 statistics from the Directorate of Prisons in the Ministry of Justice, there are approximately 8,500 imprisoned people in various prisons across Lebanon, with 83% of them being detained without trial.
North America
Minors
Justice
Health
Mental health
Drugs
Violence
United States
Jones is among thousands of people seeking accountability under a new state law that eliminated the statute of limitations for child sexual abuse claims. It was passed in 2023 with the Catholic Church abuse scandal in mind.