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April 2, 2019

France: "graves problèmes" de surpopulation carcérale

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Europe Overcrowding France

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February 26, 2019

France : surpopulation, violence, contrebande et troubles psychiatriques dans les prisons de La Réunion

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Europe Mental health Overcrowding Violence France

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January 23, 2019

Belgium: surpopulation carcérale et nouvelles prisons, l'Etat va-t-il droit dans le mur?

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Europe Overcrowding Belgium

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January 13, 2019

Dominican Republic: cárceles tradicionales son las más sobrepobladas

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Overcrowding Dominican Republic

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December 20, 2018

Prisons

Portfolio

Europe Material conditions Overcrowding France

From 2011 to 2014, Grégoire Korganow went inside some 20 corrections facilities and photographed everything he saw: inside the cells, courtyard, visitation booths, showers, solitary confinement block, and more, by day and by night.

December 7, 2018

South Africa: community service for offenders with short sentences to alleviate prison overcrowding

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Overcrowding South Africa

Cape Town – Offenders who have been handed sentences of less than two years will serve their time doing community service. This decision has been made by Acting High Court Judge AJ Thulare in a bid to curb overcrowding in prisons. The move has been welcomed by Department of Correctional Services re…

November 19, 2018

United Kingdom: rise in prison suicides prompts calls to tackle overcrowding

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Europe Suicide Overcrowding United Kingdom

Seventy-one inmates have killed themselves in English or Welsh jails so far this year.

November 11, 2018

Argentine : grave problema, hacinamiento y superpoblación en cárceles y comisarías

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America South America Overcrowding Argentina

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November 8, 2018

Colombia: cárceles de Antioquia, las más hacinadas

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Overcrowding Colombia

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October 24, 2018

France: les prisons face à la surpopulation et aux contradictions de la justice [Infographie]

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Europe Overcrowding France

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October 16, 2018

Australia: Canberra prison close to capacity

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Oceania Overcrowding Australia

Canberra prison is bursting at the seams, as a spike in male inmates stretches the jail’s population to record levels. A total of 507 prisoners were locked up at Alexander Maconochie Centre on June 19 and 25 this year, four inmates shy of capacity. The jail had an average daily population of 474 de…

September 18, 2018

France : la prison de Gradignan, symbole de la surpopulation carcérale [vidéo]

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Europe Overcrowding France

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September 12, 2018

France : Nicole Belloubet annonce que son plan prison fera baisser la population carcérale de 8000 personnes

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Europe Overcrowding France

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September 12, 2018

France : pourquoi le pays n'en finit pas avec la surpopulation carcérale

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Europe Overcrowding France

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September 12, 2018

France: the government to stop sending petty criminals to prison

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Europe Overcrowding France

France’s Minister for Justice has unveiled a plan to stop overcrowding in the country’s prisons that will scrap short sentences and create 7,000 extra places for more serious offenders.

September 4, 2018

Chequea: las cárceles están sobrepobladas

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Overcrowding Czechia

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August 6, 2018

France : 70 710 personnes incarcérées, 53 prisons en surpopulation extrême, 1 667 matelas au sol

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Europe Overcrowding France

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August 6, 2018

Sharp rise in the number of prisoners in England and Wales

Analysis Report

Europe Justice Overcrowding

The prison population has risen by 77% in the past thirty years. It comes as the result of an increasing use of custodial measures.

July 31, 2018

Chile: overcrowded cells with no water and ill treatment

Analysis Report

America South America Health Overcrowding Chile

Many prisons do not have running access to drinking water 24h/day, a dramatic situation in Chili.

July 15, 2018

Venezuela: Varela sobre las cárceles, "la población penal no está armada"

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America South America Overcrowding Venezuela

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July 12, 2018

UK: jail overcrowding forces prisoners to sleep on cell floors

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Overcrowding United Kingdom

One of the country’s busiest prisons is so overcrowded that inmates have had to sleep on the floor in recent months.

June 14, 2018

France : à la prison de Perpignan, "une cellule est occupée actuellement par 7 détenus !"

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Europe Overcrowding France

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June 3, 2018

Cárceles desbordadas en Argentina: de 4.800 presos, 1.007 duermen hoy en el piso (Mendoza)

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America South America Overcrowding Argentina

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June 2, 2018

Global prison trends 2018

Analysis Report

America North America Central America and the Caribbean Pre-trial detention South America Women Asia Europe Middle East Long-term prisoners Justice Overcrowding

Penal Reform International and the Thailand Institute of Justice co-published their 2018 annual report aiming to provide a global account on the state of prisons and the use of imprisonment throughout the world.