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Torture
United Kingdom
Investigation exposes serious allegations of international human rights breaches at young offenders institutions in the UK.
British prisons are holding child inmates in solitary confinement in an alleged breach of UN torture rules and British law, The Independent has found. Lawyers in one case have…
America
Central America and the Caribbean
Overcrowding
Haiti
Dozens of emaciated men with sunken cheeks and protruding ribs lie silently in an infirmary at Haiti’s largest prison, most too weak to stand.
The corpse of an inmate who died miserably of malnutrition is shrouded beneath a plastic tarp.
America
Central America and the Caribbean
Drugs
Mexico
Guards at one of Mexico’s high-security prisons have to worry much more about criminals breaking in than busting out.
Despite a price tag of more than 2 billion pesos ($98 million), the Papantla prison built for about 2,000 men in the eastern state of Veracruz does not have a single inmate, and onl…
