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April 26, 2017

Romanian Senate’s committee votes pardon for jail sentences of up to 3 years

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Justice Romania

The Romanian Senate’s legal committee yesterday approved an amendment to the pardon law that grants full pardon only to prison sentences of up to three years.

April 26, 2017

Romania: Europe rights court blasts Romania prison conditions

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Europe Justice Material conditions Romania

The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday (25 April) took Romania to task for its dismal prison conditions, saying they could be considered inhumane and degrading.

April 25, 2017

United States: bill to eliminate death penalty in Louisiana advances past committee

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America North America Justice United States

Every day and night, former Louisiana prosecutor A.M. Stroud thinks about Glenn Ford, the man he wrongfully sent to prison for almost half of his life and who would have been executed by the state had he not been exonerated 30 years after his conviction.

April 25, 2017

Tunisia parliament votes to ease harsh drug law

News

Justice Drugs Tunisia

Tunisian parliament votes to ease country’s harsh drug laws aftercalls from rights groups, civil society for broader reform of ‘Law 52’.

April 20, 2017

Waiting for justice

Portfolio

Africa Pre-trial detention Minors Justice Overcrowding Sierra Leone

Children are incarcerated illegally in the maximum security prison of Pademba, in Sierra Leone. Fernando Moleres shares with us the daily lives of the minors in the Prison of Freetown.

April 13, 2017

Kenya: president signs new anti-torture law

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Africa Justice Torture Kenya

Mistreatment of Kenya’s Muslim Somali community detailed in report last year by human rights commission

April 13, 2017

United Kingdom: prisons no longer place for punishment, ministers say

News

Justice United Kingdom

Prisons are no longer places for punishment, ministers have said after the phrase was excluded from the first legal definition of the purpose of jails.

April 11, 2017

Indonesia: House to deliberate alternative forms of punishment in Criminal Code

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Asia Justice Indonesia

The House of Representatives’ working committee for the amendment of the Criminal Code (KUHP) is looking into alternative forms of punishment in addition to imprisonment.

March 23, 2017

Annual penal statistics

Analysis Report

Europe Justice Overcrowding

SPACE I project is published. It released data about imprisonment use in the 47 member states of the Council of Europe.

March 1, 2017

When murder occurs in the name of justice

Analysis Opinion

Middle East Justice Death penalty

Seven death sentences are pronounced, in the first two months of 2017, in Palestine. The Human Rights and Democracy Media Centers SHAMS published, in January 2017, a report on the use of death penalty in Palestine during 2016. The Palestinian National Authority (PNA), lead by the Hamas, issued 21 d…

February 28, 2017

On the verge of a big change in penal system reform in Azerbaijan

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Justice Azerbaijan

Probation Service will be created in Azerbaijan by the Order of the President Ilham Aliyev, to improve the penal sphere, the humanization of punishment and expanding the use of alternative measures without isolation from society.

February 27, 2017

France : comment fonctionne le quartier d'évaluation de la radicalisation ?

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Europe Justice Facilities France

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February 15, 2017

Thailand: behind the wall, a look at conditions in Thailand’s prisons after the coup

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Asia Justice Thailand

Thailand’s prison population has steadily increased over the years and the country has the dubious distinction of having the largest prison population and the highest incarceration rate among Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states.

February 10, 2017

Japan: justice chief targets Juvenile Law so 18-year-olds can be charged as adults

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Asia Justice Japan

Justice Minister Katsutoshi Kaneda has consulted an advisory panel about the possibility of lowering the age of criminal adulthood to 18 from 20, a move critics claim could deprive 18- and 19-year-old offenders of the rehabilitation opportunities guaranteed by the Juvenile Law.

February 4, 2017

UN condemns poor prison conditions in Tunisia

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Justice Material conditions Tunisia

The living conditions in Tunisian prisons are horrible. Ben Emmerson, UN rapporteur on human rights and the fight against terrorism sounded the alarm during a meeting with Tunisian officials on Friday. He began by criticising widespread overcrowding in prisons across the country.

January 30, 2017

Courts around Australia face huge backlog of criminal cases, report finds

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Oceania Justice Australia

About a quarter of pending cases in NSW, Tasmania, South Australia and the ACT are taking more than a year to process, well above target of 10%

January 19, 2017

Nepal: new bill proposes open jail

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Asia Justice Nepal

A parliamentary panel is close to finalizing a bill on sentencing, which envisions an open jail system for the first time in the country.

January 16, 2017

Oman accepts 10 inmates from Guantanamo Bay prison ahead of President Obama's departure

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Justice Oman

Oman said Monday it accepted 10 inmates from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay ahead of President Barack Obama leaving office, part of his efforts to shrink the facility he promised to close.

January 16, 2017

Haïti : Détention préventive prolongée avec "plus de personnes non encore jugées que de condamnées ", affirme Jean Danton Léger

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

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December 12, 2016

Different detention conditions for Palestinian prisoners

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Middle East Access to legal rights Justice Torture Violence Israel

Nearly 7,000 Palestinian prisoners are incarcerated in Israeli prisons, under the military regime. The facilities are located outside of the occupied territories, in total violation of international law. Arrested for political reasons, the detainees are particularly prone to arbitrary detention, to…

December 6, 2016

France : la détention provisoire bat de nouveaux records

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Pre-trial detention Europe Justice France

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October 28, 2016

USA : Obama commutes 98 more prison sentences

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Justice United States

With less than three months left in his term, President Barack Obama commuted the prison sentences of 98 people on Thursday. This is just one of POTUS’ rounds of commutations this year. In August, he commuted the sentences of 111 people.

October 26, 2016

France to scrap special prison wings for dangerous jihadists

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Europe Discipline Justice Facilities Religion France

France’s Minister of Justice, Jean-Jacques Urvoas, announced on Tuesday the end of French prison wings for radicalized inmates, promising a new “regime” instead. France has five prisons with experimental de-radicalisation wings for dangerous Islamist extremists, and all these units will be shut dow…

October 24, 2016

Argentina : María Eugenia Vidal removió a toda la cúpula del Servicio Penitenciario Bonaerense

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America South America Justice Argentina

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