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September 5, 2016

Colombia : cárcel de mujeres de Cartagena supera un hacinamiento del 150%

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Overcrowding Colombia

El centro carcelario tiene capacidad para 50 y hay más de 180 internas. Según Ramiro Cuadro García director de la cárcel de mujeres San Diego de Cartagena han tenido que hacer hasta lo imposible para acomodar a todas las internas que hay y que van llegando todos los días al centro penitenciario. “L…

August 3, 2016

Life inside the Philippines' most overcrowded jail

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Asia Overcrowding Philippines

In an unassuming Quezon City neighborhood, across from a municipal library and around the corner from a police station stands the local jail.

July 31, 2016

Philippines : inhuman conditions inside Quezon City Jail, in Manila

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Asia Overcrowding Philippines

“Many go crazy”, said Mario Dimaculangan, the jail’s longest serving inmate. Harrowing photos have emerged showing the inhuman conditions inside prison in the Philippines. The facility, Quezon City Jail, in Manila, is home to 3,800 inmates – nearly five times more people than it was designed for. P…

July 30, 2016

Inside the Philippines most notorious prison where 3,600 inmates live in a space built for 800

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Asia Overcrowding Philippines

Eye-opening images reveal the daily life of 3,800 inmates serving time behind the crowded walls of a notorious Philippines prison built for just 800.

July 19, 2016

France : le nombre de détenus frôle les 70,000, un record historique

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Europe Overcrowding France

Le record de surpopulation carcérale établi en 2014 a été explosé au début du mois. L’administration pénitentiaire comptait le 1er juillet 69 375 personnes incarcérées.

July 19, 2016

France : la prison de Blois est surpeuplée

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Europe Overcrowding France

La maison d’arrêt compte 170 prisonniers pour 114 places. Une surpopulation due notamment à l’arrivée de détenus d’Orléans-Saran après les inondations.

July 17, 2016

France : le garde des Sceaux face au casse-tête des prisons surpeuplées

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Europe Overcrowding France

Surpopulation carcérale, manque de personnel d’encadrement, les prisons sont plus que jamais des cocottes-minute: les professionnels s’en alarment, le garde des Sceaux Jean-Jacques Urvoas tente d’apporter des réponses.

July 4, 2016

France : la maison d'arrêt d'Osny bloquée par les surveillants

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Europe Protest Overcrowding France

Une vingtaine de personnels pénitentiaires a bloqué lundi la maison d’arrêt d’Osny dans le Val-d’Oise, pour protester contre la surpopulation carcérale.

June 29, 2016

France : le centre pénitentiaire de Toulon-La Farlède bloqué par les surveillants

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Europe Overcrowding France

La prison de La Farlède a été paralysée ce mercredi matin par un mouvement de colère des agents pénitentiaires. À l’appel de trois syndicats, Ufap, FO et CFDT, plusieurs dizaines de surveillants ont tenu une barricade qui bloquait l’accès au centre pénitentiaire. Les manifestants dénoncent une surp…

June 22, 2016

Madagascar : maison de force de Tsiafahy. Surpopulation carcérale et sous effectif des agents pénitentiaires

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Africa Overcrowding Madagascar

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June 15, 2016

Prisons of Madagascar

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Africa Material conditions Overcrowding Madagascar

“Overcrowding, the stench of urine as soon as you cross the threshold, rats and vermin everywhere…” Virginie de Galzain

May 31, 2016

Haïti : à la prison civile de Jacmel comme au bout de l’enfer

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America Central America and the Caribbean Health Overcrowding Haiti

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May 12, 2016

Romania : UN torture prevention experts urge Romania to tackle prison overcrowding

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Overcrowding Torture Romania

Romania has made progress in improving conditions of detention in the country but much remains to be done, including reducing overcrowding in prisons and other places where people are deprived of their liberty, UN experts have said.

May 6, 2016

Philippines : un taux d’occupation des prisons de 316 %

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Asia Overcrowding Philippines

*Source - Le Temps Jamais les pénitenciers de l’archipel n’ont été aussi remplis, avec un taux d’occupation de 316%. Visite de deux établissements proches de la capitale, dont l’un est le plus peuplé du pays avec 23 000 captifs.

April 27, 2016

Morocco and Western Sahara: authorities attribute prison crowding to pretrial detentions

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Overcrowding Morocco

Mustafa Ramid, the Moroccan minister of justice and liberties confirmed the continued overcrowding of the kingdom’s prisons and attributed the phenomenon to the now-common practice of pretrial detention and the delayed start of cases involving the prematurely arrested detainees.

April 15, 2016

Europe : conditions in some prisons ‘alarming’

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Europe Material conditions Overcrowding

Myykola Gnatovskyy, President of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) : “I can say that in several countries, we have seen conditions where persons would not have sufficient living space in a cell, or even had to share beds with other prisoners – something that is very alarmin…

April 12, 2016

Romania : 100,000 € to 18 inmates because of overcrowded prisons

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Overcrowding Romania

Romania will have to pay close to EUR 100,000 compensations to 18 convicted inmates who have served prison sentences or are currently incarcerated because of the poor detention conditions in local prisons, following a decision by the European Court of Human Rights – ECHR in Strasbourg.

April 4, 2016

Haïti : 4 096 détenus provisoires dans la promiscuité en attente d’être jugés

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America Central America and the Caribbean Pre-trial detention Overcrowding Haiti

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March 18, 2016

The women behind bars in Tunisia's crowded prisons

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Women Overcrowding Tunisia

The BBC has been given rare access to an all-women prison in Tunisia, where facilities are becoming increasingly over-crowded.

December 29, 2015

Haïti : pénitencier national au-dedans de l’enfer

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America Central America and the Caribbean Overcrowding Haiti

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October 22, 2015

Cameroon : prisons severely overcrowded

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Overcrowding Cameroon

Yaounde - Human rights groups in Cameroon say prisons constructed for 500 detainees are housing more than 3,000 people, many of whom can be held for years without charge in inhumane conditions. The government says it is working on solutions.

May 15, 2015

Tunisie : La surpopulation carcérale atteint 200% dans certaines prisons, selon Ridha Zaghdoud

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Africa Overcrowding Tunisia

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March 4, 2015

Tunisie : Tunis - Des prisons surpeuplées, insalubres et pathogènes, selon la LTDH

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Africa Overcrowding Tunisia

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September 25, 2014

Inside Haiti's prisons: a nation battles crime and human rights abuses as it struggles to recover from the devastating 2010 earthquake

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America Central America and the Caribbean Protest Overcrowding Haiti

The former French naval officer looks down from the walls of Haiti’s National Penitentiary at the mass of prisoners crowded in the yards below and delivers a simple verdict.