October 2016
South America
Violence
Brazil
At least 25 inmates have been killed in clashes between two rival factions in an overcrowded prison in northern Brazil, local media report.
Seven of the dead were beheaded and six others burned to death, a police official reportedly said.
The incident in Boa Vista, the capital of Roraima state, hap…
Source — BBC
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South America
Violence
Venezuela
The prison riots reportedly began when eight visitors and two guards were taken hostage over extreme overcrowding in the jail.
A father has claimed his 25-year-old son was brutally murdered and eaten by inmates during a month-long riot at a Venezuelan prison.
Source — The Independent
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Discipline
United States
Hundreds of prisoners live in solitary confinement in Los Angeles County jails. On average, they spend at least one year in a cell the size of a wheelchair-accessible bathroom stall, leaving only a few times a week, one at a time, for showers or exercise. Meals arrive through a slot in the cell doo…
Source — Los Angeles Times
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Central America and the Caribbean
Panama
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Source — La Estrella de Panamá
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Africa
Guinea-Bissau
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Source — BBC Afrique
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Women
Asia
Justice
China
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Source — Radio France
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United States
The private prison industry is lobbying against a Justice Department directive to end the use of their facilities, encouraging legislators to question the policy change and legally protesting one significant contract reduction.
The moves by the GEO Group and others demonstrate the practical and pol…
Source — Washington Post
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Women
Health
Mental health
United Kingdom
From self-harming in groups to starvation and self-immolation, women are overwhelmingly more likely than men to hurt themselves while incarcerated. So why isn’t the prison system responding?
Maria, 29, is a disability rights activist who uses a wheelchair. She also has borderline personality disord…
Source — Broadly
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Australia : detaining high-risk terrorism offenders after jail term ends 'violates human rights'
News
Oceania
Access to legal rights
Justice
Australia
Australian human rights groups say proposed law effectively extends a prisoner’s sentence without the benefit of a trial.
Australian human rights groups have raised concerns over a proposed government bill that would allow for the continued detention of “high-risk terrorist” offenders at the end of…
Source — The Guardian
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Asia
Philippines
Thirty five inmates and four jailguards of the Manila City Jail were injured on Thursday after a noise barrage was held against Jail Warden Supt. Gerald Bantag.
A report of GMA News’ Susan Enriquez on “24 Oras” said members of Batang City Jail staged the noise barrage in protest of Bantag’s orders…
Source — GMA News
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Asia
Drugs
Protest
Philippines
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Source — Paris Match
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Protest
Philippines
Prisoners at Manila City Jail staged what authorities called a “noise barrage” on Thursday (Oct 13), protesting against the segregation of drug suspects from the general prison population, the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) said.
According to local reports, the agency’s statement sai…
Source — Channel New Asia
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Torture
United States
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Source — Courrier International & New York Times
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Philippines
Two inmates sustained minor wounds while climbing the roof of the Manila City Jail as a noise barrage was held on Thursday in what appeared to be a call for the ouster of the warden.
Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) Senior Inspector Henry Fabro said an investigation is being conducted…
Source — GMA News
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Women
Europe
Middle East
Torture
Turkey
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Source — Kedistan
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Asia
Death penalty
Japan
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Source — Courrier International & Asahi Shimbun
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Africa
Facilities
Uganda
Kampala — Uganda Prison Services is to build a 1000-inmate capacity prison annually starting this year in order to cut down congestion, the Internal Affairs minister has announced.
Maj Gen Jeje Odongo, who was accompanied by state minister Mario Obiga Kania and prison officers made his maiden visit…
Source — Allafrica
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Europe
Access to legal rights
Switzerland
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Source — Tribune de Genève
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Europe
France
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Source — La voix du Nord
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Women
Afghanistan
When 18-year-old Fawzia was convicted of elopement and adultery, a local Afghan court in the southeastern province of Paktika sentenced her to jail.
She soon discovered that she would not be serving the 18-month sentence in a government-run prison, but in the house of a tribal elder where she would…
Source — Reuters
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Europe
Ukraine
Un récent rapport de l’ONG de protection des droits de l’homme Eastern Human Rights Group a dénoncé les conditions de vie des 5 000 prisonniers qui peuplent les établissements pénitentiaires de l’Est de l’Ukraine, dans les oblasts de Louhansk et Donetsk. Depuis la sécession de ces territoires en 20…
Source — Atlantico
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