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January 16, 2019

Les conditions de détention continuent de se dégrader en Afrique et dans le monde

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December 31, 2018

Australia: call for air-conditioners in 'inhumane' cells after outback heatwave triggers prison riot

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Oceania Material conditions Australia

Prisoners forced to live in cells during a scorching Red Centre heatwave should be allowed access to air-conditioning as a human right, a Territory union leader says.

December 20, 2018

Prisons

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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 11, 2018

France: en Guyane, l’unique prison en sale état

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Europe Material conditions France

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December 7, 2018

Russia: inmates In far East launch hunger strike to protest prison conditions

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Asia Europe Material conditions Protest Violence Russia

Eight inmates in Russia’s Far Eastern Sakha-Yakutia region have launched a hunger strike to protest conditions at the prison where they are being held, the head of a regional human monitoring group says.

December 5, 2018

USA: to lower prison health-care costs, Maryland is trying to serve healthier food

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Health Material conditions United States

Not long after taking over as warden of the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women in Jessup, Margaret M. Chippendale noticed a sizable problem: Women were leaving the system a lot heavier than when they arrived.

November 10, 2018

United States: to lower prison health costs, Maryland serves healthy food

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Health Material conditions United States

Not long after taking over as warden of the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women in Jessup, Margaret M. Chippendale noticed a sizable problem: Women were leaving the system a lot heavier than when they arrived.

November 4, 2018

United Kingdom: A la prison de Birmingham, la faillite d’une gestion privée

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Europe Drugs Material conditions Facilities Violence United Kingdom

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October 1, 2018

Paraguay : decretó el estado de emergencia en las cárceles

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South America Material conditions Paraguay

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September 7, 2018

USA: will the 2018 prison strike mean better meals for people inside?

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Health Material conditions Protest United States

At the conclusion of a nearly three-week prison strike across North America, the incarcerated and advocates have sought better conditions and better food.

September 5, 2018

South Africa: inmates claim harsh conditions in super-maximum prison

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Material conditions South Africa

KwaZulu-Natal Correctional Services authorities have dismissed claims of inhumane conditions at the country’s only super-maximum prison in Ebongweni, Kokstad.

June 1, 2018

Moldova: guilty of inhuman conditions in the Transnistrian prison

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Europe Material conditions Torture Moldova

Inappropriate conditions in a Moldovan prison from Transnistria, the reason for a new condemnation of our country to the ECHR. The state will have to pay 6300 euros to 2 people who have claimed justice before the European Court.

May 25, 2018

France : maladies, drogue et malnutrition, comment les conditions se dégradent dans les camps de réfugiés à Paris

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Europe Drugs Material conditions France

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May 22, 2018

Chile: INDH reveló hacinamiento, celdas sin agua y maltratos en cárceles

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Material conditions Chile

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May 8, 2018

USA: judge approves settlement mandating air conditioning at hot Texas prison

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Material conditions United States

“I never dreamt we’d get the Pack Unit air-conditioned,” the federal judge said at a Houston hearing.

May 2, 2018

France : maison d’arrêt de Fresnes, retour sur les conditions indignes de vie en détention

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Europe Justice Material conditions France

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April 15, 2018

France : conditions de détention des terroristes, les pratiques de Fleury-Mérogis en question

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Europe Discipline Material conditions Work France

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April 9, 2018

France : les Français veulent des conditions de détention plus sévères pour les détenus et moins de moyens pour les prisons

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Europe Material conditions France

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March 20, 2018

Welcome to LTP

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Europe Health Mental health Drugs Material conditions Belarus

In Belarus, people are locked up to wean them off alcohol. These are strange places where time seems to have stopped after the fall of Soviet Union.

February 1, 2018

Camera intimă

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Women Europe Access to legal rights Material conditions Social ties Romania

Conjugal visits are allowed for prisoners and take place in private rooms, located inside the prison compound. Cosmin Bumbut photographed those places, when they were empty.

December 27, 2017

Prison food is making U.S. inmates disproportionately sick

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Health Material conditions United States

Lapses in food safety have made U.S. prisoners six times more likely to get a foodborne illness than the general population.

December 19, 2017

UK: conditions at Liverpool prison the worst ever inspected, says report

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Material conditions United Kingdom

Inspectors describe ‘squalid’ state of jail including rat and cockroach infestations and damp cells with exposed wiring.

December 6, 2017

South Africa: why we should care about inhumane prison conditions?

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Material conditions South Africa

On the anniversary this week of Sonke Gender Justice and Lawyers for Human Rights’ Pollsmoor overcrowding court victory, we should remember why the state of our prisons matter – and consider what we should be doing to improve conditions.

November 8, 2017

USA: Frackville prison’s systemic water crisis

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Material conditions United States

On September 19, 21, 24 and 27, 2017, we prisoners at Pennsylvania’s SCI-Frackville facility experienced four incidences with respect to the crisis of drinking toxic water.