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Belgique : "on est revenu en pleine seconde vague à un taux de surpopulation assez élevé"

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

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United States: reproductive justice prison system

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The United States imprisons the most women in the world. Across the United States, approximately 200,000 women are incarcerated—nearly an 800 percent increase since 1980. Women of color are disproportionately affected by the criminal justice system. In 2017, twice as many Black women and 1.3 times as…

Source — New Security Beat

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United Kingdom: Howard League exposes injustice of prison disciplinary system

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Figures show that the number of formal hearings has risen to a record high. In a new briefing, the charity explores how rule-breaking in prisons in England and Wales is managed through formal disciplinary hearings, known as adjudications, where prisoners can be given punishments including solitary confinement…

Source — Ekklesia

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United States: no escape, the trauma of witnessing violence in prison

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Early this year — before COVID-19 began to tear through U.S. prisons — five people were killed in Mississippi state prisons over the course of one week. A civil rights lawyer reported in February that he was receiving 30 to 60 letters each week describing pervasive “beatings, stabbings, denial of medical…

Source — Prison policy

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United States: mental health crisis in California’s lock-ups worsens with Covid-19

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Rather than improve under a class action lawsuit dating back to 1990 (now Plata v. Newsom) and seeking constitutionally acceptable mental health care for prisoners, conditions continue to slide, exacerbated by the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. Mental health problems are especially egregious at CDCR’s California…

Source — Prison legal news

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France : pour les plus radicaux, l’isolement, et après ?

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Turquie : vingt ans après ma libération

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République démocratique du Congo : des femmes détenues violées lors des émeutes à la prison de Lubumbashi

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Arabia Saudí: Loujain al-Hathloul debe ser liberada sin condiciones

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France: l’épidémie de Covid est entrée en prison

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Canada: why Covid-19 shows it’s time to consider prison abolition

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There are five federal prisons for women in Canada, none of which are in Newfoundland. For women from the province facing a federal sentence, this usually means they will serve their time in the Nova Institution for Women (Nova) in Truro, Nova Scotia. Being a province away from their communities means… Read more
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Belgique : "on a tous droit à un peu d'affection"

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Argentina: cárceles solidarias, presas hicieron y donaron 180 pelucas para pacientes oncológicos

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España: el protocolo antisuicidios en las cárceles

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España: el psiquiátrico penitenciario de Fontcalent se queda sin psiquiatras

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United Kingdom: CT child advocate report, adult prison system is no place for minors

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The 18-year-old didn’t want to be in jail, he told Department of Correction officials one day in 2019, as he covered the window in his cell with a sheet and mattress. He wanted to be with his family. He was being held in a “Restrictive Housing Unit” at Manson Youth Institution in Cheshire, confined to…

Source — The CT mirror

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United States: the role of plant-based food in the prison system

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British prisons and jails must provide for vegan inmates by law; as of January this year, veganism is an explicitly protected belief under the Equality Act 2010, the same as religious beliefs. This protection is not absolute, nor does veganism have legal protection everywhere in the world. In the U.S.,…

Source — Sentient Media

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United States: California law is step forward but fails to guarantee safety for trans prisoners

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Syiaah Skylit has been imprisoned in California since 2015. Despite multiple requests to be placed in a women’s prison, Skylit, a Black trans woman, has always been incarcerated in the state’s men’s prisons. There, she has faced attacks by incarcerated men as well as sexual abuse and retaliation by prison…

Source — Truthout

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France: aumônerie musulmane en prison, décryptage d’un phénomène en croissance

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Belgique : prison et Covid, la double peine

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United States: prison is even worse when you have a disability like autism

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When Drew Harrison was in prison, just sitting in his cell overloaded his senses. To dim the fluorescent lights, he covered the bulbs with toothpaste or paper. To mask overwhelming odors, he wrapped his uniform around his head. Once, when he asked to stay longer in the prison yard, Harrison, who has…

Source — The Marshall Project

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Jamaica: helping move mentally ill out of prison not an issue

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“Resources and funding” have been identified by Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton as the hurdles that his ministry would need to clear in order to find suitable spaces so that mentally ill prisoners can be removed from correctional facilities. A recommendation for “some place other than…

Source — Jamaica Observer

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United States: advocates file complaint over Texas youth prison conditions

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Detainees in Texas’ juvenile prisons suffer from frequent physical and sexual abuse, inadequate mental healthcare and high rates of staff turnover, two youth advocacy groups wrote in a federal complaint Wednesday. The rights of the hundreds of youths detained in five secure facilities around the state…

Source — San Francisco Chronicle

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