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United States: inadequate mental health treatment
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How the prison system respond to the needs of mentally ill prisoners?
Estados Unidos: Nueva York trasladará mujeres y transexuales de la peligrosa cárcel de Rikers
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United States: addressing the structural inequalities underlying a failing prison health system
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ICPR and Prison Insider asked several experts worldwide to share their insights in the framework of the project ‘Understanding and reducing the use of imprisonment in 10 countries’. Homer Venters is a physician and epidemiologist working at the intersection of incarceration, health and human rights…
United States: there’s an aging crisis in New York’s prisons and we need to solve it
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ICPR and Prison Insider asked several experts worldwide to share their insights in the framework of the project ‘Understanding and reducing the use of imprisonment in 10 countries’. Rodney Holcombe, New York State Director for Criminal Justice Reform, addresses the New York prison system and the it…
United States: surge in life sentences
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Ashley Nellis, Ph.D. is a Senior Research Analyst at the Washington DC-based NGO, The Sentencing Project, which has been active in the struggle to reform American law and practice on life sentences. Here, Ashley discusses America’s now commonplace use of life sentences and calls for bolder approach…
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The former journalist was convicted of killing a police officer in 1981, in a trial many say was suffused with racial bias.
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Our December survey of medical co-pay policies shows that some states are reinstating medical co-pays as COVID-19 continues to spread in prisons.
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At least 30 states began officially and formally sanctioning this practice under the “1907 Indiana Eugenics Law.”
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A U.S. District Court judge has ruled that a prison would violate an inmate’s constitutional rights by denying her from having gender-affirming surgery, and has ordered correction officials to allow for the inmate to make such arrangements.
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Federal officials have suggested that corrections staff receive high priority for a coronavirus vaccine, but not the millions of vulnerable inmates held in U.S. facilities.
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The United States imprisons the most women in the world. Across the United States, approximately 200,000 women are incarcerated—nearly an 800 percent increase since 1980. Women of color are disproportionately affected by the criminal justice system. In 2017, twice as many Black women and 1.3 times…
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A recent study of recently incarcerated people finds that witnessing violence is a frequent and traumatizing experience in prison.
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The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has been challenged regarding care for its mentally ill prisoners for decades.
Etats-Unis: peine de mort, l’administration Trump poursuit les exécutions malgré sa défaite
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United States: can correctional facilities negotiate phone contracts that prohibit deposit fees ?
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Yes ! Many do. We review the evidence and find 15 states that said no to unnecessary fees. Who will be next ?
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By march, officials expect to have reduced the state’s prison population by about 35 percent since the start of the pandemic.
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British prisons and jails must provide for vegan inmates by law; as of January this year, veganism is an explicitly protected belief under the Equality Act 2010, the same as religious beliefs.
This protection is not absolute, nor does veganism have legal protection everywhere in the world. In the U…
United States: California law is step forward but fails to guarantee safety for trans prisoners
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Syiaah Skylit has been imprisoned in California since 2015. Despite multiple requests to be placed in a women’s prison, Skylit, a Black trans woman, has always been incarcerated in the state’s men’s prisons. There, she has faced attacks by incarcerated men as well as sexual abuse and retaliation by…
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State officials often fail to identify prisoners with developmental disorders, a group that faces overwhelming challenges behind bars, from bright lights to noises to social dynamics.
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Some states stop charging copays to encourage COVID-19 care.
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Detainees in Texas’ juvenile prisons suffer from frequent physical and sexual abuse, inadequate mental healthcare and high rates of staff turnover, two youth advocacy groups wrote in a federal complaint Wednesday.
The rights of the hundreds of youths detained in five secure facilities around the st…