Drugs
Germany: walling up madness
Analysis
Europe
Access to legal rights
Discipline
Mental health
Drugs
Material conditions
Germany
Germany is a federal republic divided into 16 Länder. The Ministry of Justice oversees prison health care. Federal law does not provide for any mental health care in prison. The Länder implement treatment measures. Significant variations have been observed from one territory and facility to another…
Walling up madness
Analysis
Thematic paper
Europe
Access to legal rights
Mental health
Drugs
Material conditions
Suicide
More than 40 % of prisoners in Italy suffer from at least one mental disorder, about 30% in Spain, 35% in England, and 60% in the Netherlands. Does prison make you go mad? This is no doubt true for some. Prison Insider provides an overview of practices in eight countries.
Years in the Row
Analysis
Thematic paper
Africa
Women
Asia
Europe
Minors
Foreign prisoners
Discipline
Health
Mental health
Drugs
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Death penalty
Torture
Some people fear death every morning. Others are sentenced to death in countries that no longer carry out executions. At least 483 executions were documented in 2020. Prison Insider publishes an overview of practices in nine countries that have not abolished the death penalty.
Women
Asia
Drugs
Death penalty
Malaysia
Incident has ignited fierce debate on women’s rights and capital punishment in Malaysia.
Indonésie : l’enfer du feu dans une prison
News
Asia
Drugs
Material conditions
Facilities
Indonesia
This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: French
United States: addressing the structural inequalities underlying a failing prison health system
Analysis
Opinion
North America
Mental health
Drugs
Material conditions
Suicide
United States
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…
Thailand: the overcriminalization of meth, a failed moral crusade
Analysis
Opinion
Asia
Long-term prisoners
Drugs
Overcrowding
Thailand
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’. Pascal Tanguay discusses the overcriminalization of meth-related crimes in Thailand and its consequences.
Life imprisonment: a sentence in dire need of reform
Analysis
Opinion
Africa
Asia
Elderly prisoners
Europe
Oceania
Long-term prisoners
Justice
Health
Mental health
Drugs
Overcrowding
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’. In this piece, Olivia Rope, Executive Director of Penal Reform International (PRI), discusses life sentences, a key p…
Africa
Crises
Pre-trial detention
Asia
Elderly prisoners
Europe
Access to legal rights
Health
Mental health
Drugs
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Social ties
An international research and policy project carried out by the Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research (ICPR) at Birkbeck, University of London
Africa
Drugs
Protest
Death penalty
Violence
Social ties
Niger
Some death row prisoners at Kurmawa Prison in Kano have staged protests over confiscation mobile phones, marijuana and other prohibited items smuggled to them by visitors.
North America
South America
Women
Long-term prisoners
Drugs
Brazil
Brazil and the United States are amongst the countries that incarcerate the highest numbers of women. What policies and practices do these countries have in common?
Culture
Central America and the Caribbean
LGBTQI
Drugs
Violence
Religion
El Salvador
“It was completely unheard of“. “Because in the gangs, if there’s even the suspicion that you’re gay, you pay for it with your life.”
Luxembourg : vers l'élimination des drogues en prison
News
Europe
Drugs
Luxembourg
This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: French
France : faim, manque d’hygiène et chantage, le calvaire des pauvres en prison
News
Coronavirus
Women
Europe
Health
Drugs
Material conditions
Social ties
France
This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: French
Argentina: por qué son cada vez más las mujeres presas por vender drogas
News
South America
Women
Justice
Drugs
Argentina
This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: Spanish
Brazil: drugs, walls and being a woman
Interview
Women
Access to legal rights
Drugs
Brazil
Ranked as the world’s third-highest prison population, its number of imprisoned women is rising increasingly.