Information, topic by topic, on prisons across the world

February 10, 2021

Germany: unsuccessful constitutional complaint challenging electronic monitoring of persons released from prison (‘electronic tagging’)

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In an order published today, the Second Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court held that the statutory provisions on the electronic monitoring of persons released from prison are compatible with the Basic Law.

February 8, 2021

Italie: en prison avec des djihadistes, Cesare Battisti démarre une grève de la faim

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January 7, 2021

France : “je me dois de vous dire que la dite réinsertion est un combat de tous les jours”

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December 22, 2020

Egypt: collective punishment at prison

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A human rights watchdog Thursday accused Egyptian authorities of making modifications to a notorious Cairo prison that amount to “collective punishment” of inmates following an escape attempt that left four policemen dead. Egyptian security agencies last month had construction workers make changes…

December 11, 2020

Belgique : "on est revenu en pleine seconde vague à un taux de surpopulation assez élevé"

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December 7, 2020

United Kingdom: Howard League exposes injustice of prison disciplinary system

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The disciplinary system in prisons creates a pervasive sense of injustice, fuelling conflict and overcrowding and should be overhauled, the Howard League for Penal Reform reveals.

December 4, 2020

France : pour les plus radicaux, l’isolement, et après ?

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October 30, 2020

Nigeria: security operatives kill 18 inmates in Warri prison after jailbreak

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A source explained that while 15 people died during the incident, three other persons died from the bullet injury sustained as the correctional service denied the inmates medical treatment.

July 30, 2020

European Prison Rules: “progressing the conversation”

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All prison conditions across Europe are not equivalent. However, the European Prison Rules formulate guidelines to ensure the protection of prisoners’ rights. Are these rules respected? What does their recent revision imply?

July 29, 2020

Russia: Incendie dans une prison pour femmes de Moscou, 850 évacuations

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May 28, 2020

Lockdown is not imprisonment!

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Finally free? Two researchers discuss the parallels between lockdown and incarceration. In their opinion, comparisons with prison are misleading.

March 9, 2020

UK: 'our prison deradicalisation programmes aren't working'

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The British prison system currently deals with high-security terrorism convicts by sending them to dispersal prisons. These prisoners are distributed around six maximum security dispersal jails and are regularly moved from one to another. This is done to prevent them from establishing close relatio…

March 5, 2020

USA: el confinamiento en solitario prolongado en las cárceles equivale a tortura psicológica

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February 26, 2020

France: Lille, une prison dans la prison pour les détenus radicalisés

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January 2, 2020

USA: youth confinement

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On any given day, over 48,000 youth in the United States are confined in facilities away from home as a result of juvenile justice or criminal justice involvement. Most are held in restrictive, correctional-style facilities, and thousands are held without even having had a trial.

November 22, 2019

France: Des pathologies "aggravées par l'enfermement et l'isolement" : un rapport alerte sur la situation déplorable des détenus atteints de troubles mentaux

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November 12, 2019

Turkey: radicalisation en prison, l'ONU en quête de solutions

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November 7, 2019

France: au coeur du nouveau quartier pour radicalisés

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October 29, 2019

Syria: cómo es la prisión kurda donde están encerrados miles de terroristas del Estado Islámico

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July 15, 2019

France: visite du quartier pour détenus radicalisés de la prison de la Santé

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July 12, 2019

USA: NJ limits solitary confinement in prisons, hailed as "historic" criminal justice step

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New Jersey will limit the use of solitary confinement in correctional facilities and effectively ban it outright for certain people, including the young and elderly, pregnant women and members of the LGBTQ community.

July 10, 2019

France: enquête sur la difficile gestion des radicalisés

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July 8, 2019

United States: what do people in solitary confinement want to see?

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Willie Sterling III imagined this: a line of people, bonded by a belief in his humanity, travelling up a hill in southern Illinois to a cross that sits at its peak. The cross was Bald Knob Cross of Peace, a colossus more than a hundred feet tall. It was made of concrete and varnished with porcelain…

June 6, 2019

United States: what it’s like to spend half a life in solitary confinement?

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Tony Medina has spent two decades in a concrete box in Texas, alone.