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Source — Courrier International & New York Times
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Certains condamnés peuvent choisir de purger leur peine dans une prison municipale plus confortable que celle du comté. À condition de payer…
(…) En Californie, certains individus ont le droit – avec l’aval du juge – de choisir le lieu de leur détention. Ils peuvent décider d’aller dans l’établisse…
Source — Le Point
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In nearly three years, Dominic Walker rarely looked another human being in the eye.
Except for showers, he left his cell at Men’s Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles only once a week, to exercise in a small cage resembling a dog kennel. His conversations were typically shouted through cell bars to…
Source — Los Angeles Times
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USA : how one inmate discovered his private prison was ripping him off—and took his warden to court
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Thousands of inmates file lawsuits against their prison every year. Most who sue without a lawyer are unceremoniously dismissed without much legal back-and-forth.
Michael Leatherwood, an inmate in a private prison in Oklahoma, is an exception. He’s gotten notably further with his lawsuit, which all…
Source — Fusion
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Justice
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For 126 federal inmates who received presidential clemency last month, the good news might have come with a dose of disappointment.
President Obama had granted their requests for commutations, using his constitutional pardon power to shorten their sentences for drug offenses. But instead of releasi…
Source — USA Today
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In recent years, the bipartisan push for criminal justice reform has been fueled in large part by the astronomical price tag that comes with mass incarceration. Locking people up in federal, state, and local correctional facilities costs the government a whopping $80 billion, and taxpayers end up f…
Source — Think Progress
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In recent years, the bipartisan push for criminal justice reform has been fueled in large part by the astronomical price tag that comes with mass incarceration. Locking people up in federal, state, and local correctional facilities costs the government a whopping $80 billion, and taxpayers end up f…
Source — Think Progress
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États-Unis : harcelée en prison, Chelsea Manning en grève de la faim pour défendre se transsexualité
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LGBTI
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Afin d’obtenir les soins hormonaux nécessaires à son changement de sexe comme obtenu en justice, Chelsea Manning, incarcérée pour son rôle dans la révélation du scandale WikiLeaks, a annoncé ce samedi qu’elle arrêtait de se nourrir.
“Je ne demande rien d’autre que la dignité et le respect”. Tels so…
Source — LCI
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Material conditions
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The economic toll of incarceration in the U.S. tops $1 trillion, and more than half of that falls on the families and communities of the people incarcerated, according to a recent study by Washington University researchers.
“For every dollar in corrections spending, there’s another 10 dollars of ot…
Source — St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Part of the philosophy for creating a separate juvenile-justice system in the United States is the idea that the state can act as a parent, or parens patriae—protector, caretaker, disciplinarian—when a young person fails to respect the rights of others, commits petty or serious crimes, or shirks ag…
Source — The Atlantic
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Le ministère de la Défense américain a annoncé ce jeudi 8 septembre la fermeture d’un des camps de détention de Guantanamo. Le camp 5, qui comprenait 100 cellules, sera reconverti en hôpital. 8 millions et demi de dollars seront investis pour cette transformation dans l’année à venir. A quatre mois…
Source — RFI
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Protest
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Across 24 states, inmates are sick of poisoned water, solitary confinement, and forced labor.
This September 9, we may witness the largest prison strike in US history. Potentially thousands of inmates across both state and federal prisons in as many as 24 states plan to engage in a coordinated stri…
Source — The Nation
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Material conditions
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Cosas tan simples como un cigarrillo, un chicle o una sopa instantánea son la “moneda” de los reos ante las limitantes de artículos personales y el rechazo a la comida de los penales.
Esto es lo que afirman algunos presos paseños y el reciente estudio de un sociólogo de la Universidad de Arizona qu…
Source — El Diario de El Paso
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RICHMOND — Inmates died nearly nine times more often in custody at Hampton Roads Regional Jail than at other local or regional jails in Virginia during the past three years, according to an analysis of statistics from two state agencies.
Since June 2013, 12 of the 6,716 inmates who have been locked…
Source — The Roanoke Times
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Last Thursday, private prison stocks dropped like a rock when the Department of Justice announced that it would be phasing out its use of for-profit detention facilities. If you were an investor who had no ethical qualms about profiting from an industry that’s been accused of perpetrating a number…
Source — The Nation
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Le ministère américain de la justice a annoncé, vendredi 18 août, vouloir mettre fin au recours par l’Etat fédéral aux prisons privées. Cette décision se traduira par le non-renouvellement des contrats arrivant à leur terme signés avec des entreprises gérant des prisons.
Source — Le Monde
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Material conditions
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In Kentucky, a judge was outraged after a female inmate was brought into her courtroom without pants on, having been denied access to female hygiene products for days. Advocates explain how our prison system is failing women.
Appearing in a courtroom in only your underwear is more commonly the stuf…
Source — Vice
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Health
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Depriving people of condoms and medications puts everyone at risk.
Some countries do make condoms available to prisoners, while others cite security issues, or blanket prohibitions of sex. Only last year, California became the second state to require that condoms be available to all prisoners. Even…
Source — The Atlantic
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Protest
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Activists are taking aim at mass incarceration, environmental pollution and the toxic prisons where the two problems meet.
Nestled in the hills of Letcher County, Kentucky, the Lilley Cornett Woods are a sea of biodiversity. The 554 acres are home to over 530 species of flowering plants and the end…
Source — In these times
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Health
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In February, The Nation reported that at least 38 men died in the BOP’s privately run prisons from 1998 to 2014 in the wake of inadequate medical care. An examination of thousands of pages of previously unreleased files revealed that gravely ill prisoners had been left untreated, or relegated to th…
Source — The Nation
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USA : mass reduction of California prison population didn’t cause rise in crime, two studies find
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After California’s prison population reached the crisis stage of overcrowding — with some prisons at 300 percent capacity — the state in 2011 began to parole thousands of inmates to their original counties.
Within 15 months, more than 27,500 inmates had been “realigned” from state prisons to county…
Source — Washington Post
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Health
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Human Right Watch (HRW) a reccueilli les témoignages d’anciens détenus précedemment incarcérés dans des prisons de la Louisiane (sud des États-Unis), sur la dangereuse absence de soins en matière de VIH.
HRW a publié à ce sujet un rapport émettant plusieurs recommandations afin de réformer ce systè…
Source — News 360
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