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Europe
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Religion
France
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Source — France TV Info
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France
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Source — Europe 1
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Canada
Five years after Ontario vowed to curtail its use of solitary confinement, average inmate stays in segregation cells have grown longer, with one prisoner in Ottawa remaining in isolation for at least 835 days, according to newly released provincial data.
Source — The Globe and Mail
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Canada : feds aim to replace solitary confinement in prisons with ‘structured intervention units’
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North America
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Canada
Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale has tabled a new bill in the House of Commons aimed at ridding Canadian prisons of solitary confinement.
Bill C-83 suggests designating “a penitentiary or an area in a penitentiary as a structured intervention unit for the confinement of inmates who cannot be ma…
Source — Global News
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Europe
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Croatia
Croatia’s government should end the confinement of children and adults in institutions, five disabled people’s and human rights organizations said today in a letter to Prime Minister Andrej Plenković. Despite some initial progress, the process of moving people out of institutions and into community…
Source — Human Rights Watch
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Violence
United Kingdom
Use of Pava by prison officers could cause pain and serious injury, UK watchdog says.
Source — The Guardian
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Europe
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Facilities
France
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Source — RFI
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Europe
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Rehabilitation
Religion
France
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Source — France Info
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United Kingdom
Last week, in a joint statement, the British Medical Association (BMA), the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health called for an end to the solitary confinement of children and young people held in UK detention facilities.
Source — The Lancet
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Europe
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Facilities
France
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Source — Paris Match
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Europe
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Material conditions
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France
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Source — LCI
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Mental health
United States
The more than three dozen men incarcerated in the behavioral health unit at the Oregon State Penitentiary spend almost 23 hours a day confined to a dark, small cell — a practice akin to “torture,” according to disability rights leaders.
Source — Statesman Journal
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Europe
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Justice
France
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Source — Le Monde
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Europe
Middle East
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Justice
United States
Ali Osman Karahan, an 87-year-old Turkish man who has been in an Isparta prison for almost 15 months over alleged links to the Gülen movement, was given 11 days of solitary confinement.
Source — TurkishMinute
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North America
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Canada
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Source — RCI
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United States
Arizona death row inmate Scott Nordstrom lives alone in a room smaller than a parking space. He’s allowed to leave his cell a few times each week to shower or exercise alone in a similarly-sized mesh cage and is forbidden from making physical contact with visitors from the outside.
Source — The Marshall Project
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Europe
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Religion
France
With 2,500 inmates, the penitentiary institution of Fresnes, about 20 miles south of Paris, is one of the largest prisons in Europe. Like most French prisons, Fresnes is overcrowded. Built in the late 19th century, its tiny cells, each meant for one prisoner, most often house three.
Inmates scream…
Source — NPR
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North America
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United States
“Segregation is known to be psychologically detrimental to those who are in there for any length of time,” Bruce Busby, the state department’s director of institutions said.
Source — The Washington Times
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Canada
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Source — Le Devoir
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Canada
Nearly a decade after teenager Ashley Smith died by self-strangulation in a solitary confinement cell, the Liberal government has introduced a bill that would place new restrictions on indefinite solitary confinement in federal prisons but falls short of the expectations of some prison-rights advoc…
Source — The Globe and Mail
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Oceania
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Facilities
Australia
In an effort to prevent the spread of radical Islamic ideology, Australia is to build a prison facility which will isolate militants from other inmates.
The unit, named ‘Supermax II’, will be a part of Goulburn’s high-security Supermax prison and would house 54 inmates, said the Premier of New Sout…
Source — Independent
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Oceania
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Australia
The state government will spend tens of millions of dollars on a new Supermax high-security unit at Goulburn jail in a bid to prevent those convicted of terrorism from spreading extreme views, even though Corrections’ own figures show only about five inmates had been radicalised over the past decad…
Source — The Syndey Morning Herald
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