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March 23, 2017

Use and over-use of imprisonment worldwide

Analysis Report

Institute for Criminal Policy Research : global report

March 23, 2017

Annual penal statistics

Analysis Report

Europe Justice Overcrowding

SPACE I project is published. It released data about imprisonment use in the 47 member states of the Council of Europe.

March 23, 2017

The terror and torment of Turkey's jailed journalists

News

Europe Turkey

Prisoners tell of solitary confinement and maltreatment after being caught up in ‘Kafkaesque’ media purge.

March 23, 2017

Prison Insider's editorial — March 2017

America South America Health Drugs

The Americas: drug trafficking routes and pathways to prison

March 22, 2017

Guatemala : le désastreux système de protection des mineurs

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America Central America and the Caribbean Guatemala

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March 22, 2017

Pays-Bas : fermer les prisons pour mieux les rouvrir

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Europe Netherlands

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March 22, 2017

USA: how prison visitation cuts devastate families

News

Social ties United States

Buried in the New York state budget is a proposal to cut weekday visits for over 20,000 inmates. For families of incarcerated people, this could mean barely having any real contact with their loved ones.

March 21, 2017

Marcello dell'Anna (II)

Testimonial

Long-term prisoners Italy

“My letters tell my life in prison. A life punctuated by infinite time that causes someone like me to suffer both physically and mentally…”

March 21, 2017

Inde : comment sortir d’une prison quand on est innocent ?

News

Asia India

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March 21, 2017

Mutinerie au Guatemala : 3 otages libérés et 3 surveillants tués

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America Central America and the Caribbean Protest Violence Guatemala

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March 21, 2017

Guatemala police rescue hostages from rioting youth jail inmates

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America Central America and the Caribbean Guatemala

Riot police in Guatemala have entered a youth detention centre and rescued four hostages from rioting inmates.

March 21, 2017

Mali : projet de centre pénitentiaire agricole à Koulikoro, le CICR soutient les détenus

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Africa Mali

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March 20, 2017

Two killed, several injured in riot at Guatemala prison

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America Central America and the Caribbean Protest Guatemala

A riot erupted Sunday at a prison for juveniles and adults, and authorities said two jail monitors were killed and several other people suffered injuries.

March 20, 2017

Royaume-Uni : Supreme court to consider appeal to enforce smoking ban in jails

News

United Kingdom

Prisoner says rules on smoking in communal areas are not being upheld, exposing him to dangerous levels of secondhand smoke. The remaining rights of prisoners to smoke inside their cells are to be challenged at the supreme court in a case which, if successful, could inflame discipline problems in p…

March 17, 2017

Spain: suicidios, incendios, despotismo… la cárcel de lujo de Artur Mas ya es casi una ruina

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Europe Suicide Spain

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March 16, 2017

Penitentiary system in Costa Rica undergoing changes

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America Central America and the Caribbean Costa Rica

Since 1999 Costa Rica hasn’t built a new prison, but for this 2017, the country will have three new Comprehensive Care Units that will host 1,600 prisoners in spaces suitable for work and study.

March 16, 2017

Sierra Leone: justice for women who kill

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Africa Women Sierra Leone

Aminata* was only 17 years old when she was arrested for killing her former boyfriend eight years ago. She was sentenced to death for murder in November 2010 and feared each day she would be executed before her sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by the government on Sierra Leone’s 50th Inde…

March 16, 2017

Colombia: la población en cárceles aumentó 141% desde el año 2000

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America South America Overcrowding Colombia

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March 14, 2017

Colombie : Cárceles y presos de Colombia

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America South America Colombia

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March 14, 2017

Cyprus says sweeping changes have reduced prison suicides

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Suicide Cyprus

The director of Cyprus’ prisons complex says no inmates have committed suicide over the last two years following sweeping reforms in the east Mediterranean island nation’s correctional system.

March 14, 2017

Netherlands: la prison pas comme les autres de la Cour pénale internationale

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Europe France

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March 14, 2017

Europe : le nombre de détenus baisse partout sauf en France

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Europe France

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March 14, 2017

Odon Vallet : "dans les prisons du Bénin, il doit y avoir des livres sur un islam ouvert, car le risque de radicalisation est réel"

News

Africa Health Material conditions Benin

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March 14, 2017

Canada: prison watchdog sees sharp decline in use of solitary confinement

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America North America Discipline Canada

Correctional investigator Ivan Zinger notes positive penitentiary trends in report.