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June 21, 2019

Paraguay: más cárceles no solucionan el hacinamiento

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South America Material conditions Paraguay

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June 11, 2019

Switzerland: des élus vaudois veulent améliorer les conditions des femmes en prison

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Women Europe Material conditions Switzerland

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June 7, 2019

Libya: l'ONU dénonce les conditions de détention «épouvantables» des migrants

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Africa Material conditions Libya

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May 20, 2019

Kenya: mothers in prison deserve better conditions to bring up children

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Africa Material conditions Social ties Kenya

The Kenya Prisons Service has allowed children under four years to accompany their mothers to prison, where they are accorded relatively proper care.

April 23, 2019

Nigeria: stringent bail conditions responsible for prison congestion

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Africa Material conditions Nigeria

Some lawyers in Lagos on Tuesday attributed prison congestion in the country to the inability of defendants to perfect stringent bail conditions.

April 17, 2019

Japan: expensive daily products at Osaka prison prompts human rights concern from lawyers

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Asia Material conditions Japan

Tissue paper and other daily products sold at Osaka Prison are so expensive that inmates mostly cannot purchase them, a situation amounting to a human rights violation, according to local lawyers.

April 9, 2019

Netherlands: better prison food could be key in reducing re-offending

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Europe Material conditions Netherlands

The Netherlands should look to Scandinavian examples and allow more prisoners to prepare and cook their own food, because there is evidence that they are less likely to re-offend, according to research carried out by the justice ministry.

April 9, 2019

USA: California inmates detail prison conditions of maggots, mice falling in dining hall

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North America Material conditions United States

Maggots and mice have fallen onto inmates’ dining tables at a California state prison where holes in the roof also allow rain and bird droppings to seep through and streak the walls, according to an inmate lawsuit that charges the state isn’t moving fast enough to repair deteriorating prisons.

January 28, 2019

Mali: conditions de vie exécrables des surveillants de prison

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Africa Material conditions Mali

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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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Material conditions

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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.