July 2018
Africa
Middle East
Egypt
A total of 710 prisoners were released on Wednesday per a presidential pardon.
The Prisons Authority continues to select the prisoners who qualify for conditional release, and those who served half of their sentences and were not involved in criminal cases.
Source — Egypt Today
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Social ties
United Kingdom
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Slate
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Violence
Social ties
United Kingdom
Thousands of prisoners will be able to make calls from their cells, as part of government plans to reduce violence and crime in prisons in England and Wales.
The move is part of a £30m package of measures to be announced later today by Justice Secretary David Gauke. The scheme, already in place at…
Source — BBC
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Asia
Death penalty
Japan
Seven members of a brainwashed doomsday cult were hanged last week in a sterile Japanese execution chamber for carrying out a deadly gas attack in 1995.
The Asian country is one of only two first world democracies, along with the US, who kill their own citizens.
Source — The Sun
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Denmark
Denmark’s prisons agency Kriminalforsorgen has taken new steps to prevent the spread of extremist material in the country’s jails.
Citing security, the agency has shut down an online network used by prisoners in secured facilities, newspaper Jyllands-Posten reports.
Source — The Local
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South America
Brazil
Brazil has the third largest prison population in the world. Renata Tavares da Costa has been working as a public defender in Rio de Janeiro for the past ten years.
She agreed to give an exclusive interview to Prison Insider on her analysis of the situation and the mechanisms, which in her opinion…
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Europe
Luxembourg
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Le Quotidien
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Europe
Belgium
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Source — La libre Belgique
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South America
Argentina
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.
Source — Uno Santa Fe
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South America
Uruguay
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.
Source — Espectador
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