Material conditions
Africa: the impossible confinement
Interview
Africa
Coronavirus
Crises
Health
Material conditions
In Africa, the COVID-19 epidemic is evolving differently compared to Europe or America. Is the lockdown a solution to the spread of the epidemic?
France: punaises de lit, moisissures, surpopulation, le calvaire à la prison de Perpignan
News
Coronavirus
Europe
Health
Material conditions
France
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USA: Inmates talk of COVID fear and helplessness after transfers bring ‘the beast’ to San Quentin
News
Coronavirus
North America
Health
Material conditions
United States
Sixty-six inmates from the coronavirus-ridden California Institution for Men were on buses in late May, headed from Chino to the prison at Corcoran where Frank Estrada was incarcerated.
Mexico: La fallida construcción de la infraestructura penitenciaria como negocio
News
Central America and the Caribbean
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Mexico
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POINT de vues
Insights
Portfolio
Women
Europe
Material conditions
Facilities
France
Delphine Dauphy and Marc Loyon ran photography workshops in prisons for six months. This involved visiting both Vezin-le-Coquet prison and Rennes women’s prison seven times. Every prisoner was able to take part in creating a body of images documenting their daily life.
DRC: les prisons considérées comme des mouroirs
News
Africa
Health
Material conditions
Torture
Congo - Kinshasa
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Uruguay: Operadores penitenciarios denuncian condiciones de trabajo en las cárceles
News
South America
Material conditions
Uruguay
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Coronavirus
North America
Justice
Health
Material conditions
The class action complaint details subpar hygiene protocols, lack of proper healthcare, and more at Mississippi State Penitentiary Parchman
Cuba: Humiliation non-stop
Testimonial
Central America and the Caribbean
Foreign prisoners
Access to legal rights
Justice
Health
Material conditions
Torture
Cuba
Jacques was arrested in February 2017 by the Cuban criminal justice system and was immediately incarcerated in a state owned highly secured prison, held incommunicado for 48 days. Her daughter became fatherless overnight.
He was transferred to France in September 2019. He narrates to Prison Insider…
North America
Long-term prisoners
Health
Material conditions
Overcrowding
United States
The words “help we matter 2” are seen written in a window at the Cook County Department of Corrections, housing one of the nation’s largest jails, in Chicago, Illinois, on April 9, 2020.
Africa
Coronavirus
Long-term prisoners
Health
Material conditions
Overcrowding
South Africa
Inmates serving lengthy sentences for serious and violent crimes say basic regulations to combat the spread of the coronavirus are being flouted, putting their lives at risk.
Coronavirus
North America
Health
Material conditions
United States
The number of coronavirus cases in California’s San Quentin state prison has crossed a thousand, with more than 900 cases being diagnosed in the last two weeks alone.
Uruguay: controlaron revuelta en la cárcel de Punta de Rieles tras requisa masiva
News
South America
Material conditions
Protest
Uruguay
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Global Prison Trends 2020
Report
Africa
Asia
Europe
Middle East
Oceania
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Over 11 million people are held in prisons worldwide. Many face substandard detention conditions. Sentences keep getting longer, in underfunded justice systems. PRI has published its annual report on the state of prisons and the use of imprisonment: Global Prison Trends 2020.
Asia
Material conditions
Work
Taiwan
A Taiwanese technical mission to the Pacific island nation of Nauru is helping a penal facility improve food self-reliance and is teaching inmates skills they can use after their release, the team said yesterday.
“The project, with the goal of minimizing waste, officially started in January, with a…
Middle East
Health
Material conditions
Yemen
The Yemeni Abductees’ Mothers Association in the city of Aden yesterday warned that the detainees in Bir Ahmed Prison are facing a “slow death” due to ill-treatment by the prison administration.
The group said in a statement that the prison administration deliberately mistreats detainees by cutting…
Coronavirus
Minors
Oceania
Material conditions
Social ties
Australia
Report reveals inmates going without soap and children in out-of-home care system being refused contact with families
France: surpopulation, personnel débordé, locaux "immondes", le triste bilan des prisons françaises en 2019
News
Europe
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Work
France
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Lockdown is not imprisonment!
Insights
Coronavirus
Discipline
Justice
Material conditions
Alternatives
France
Finally free? Two researchers discuss the parallels between lockdown and incarceration. In their opinion, comparisons with prison are misleading.
Coronavirus
North America
Health
Material conditions
United States
The plaintiffs want an independent expert to assess whether the facility has implemented social distancing measures, testing procedures, and hygiene practices adequate enough to reasonably protect detainees from contracting COVID-19 while in custody.
Argentina: ¿para qué está la cárcel?
News
Coronavirus
South America
Women
LGBTQI
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Argentina
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Asia
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Thailand
BANGKOK — A university is working with a prison to help tackle overcrowding and unhygienic conditions that have stalked the Thai corrections system for years.
In a joint project by King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi and Thonburi Remand Prison, architecture students are asked to come u…
Guinea: plongée dans l'enfer du camp militaire de Soronkoni
News
Africa
Material conditions
Violence
Work
Guinea
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