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Denmark
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Source — France inter
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Europe
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France
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Source — La Croix
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United States
New York corrections officials said Friday they have suspended a program that forced families and friends to send care packages to prisoners only through select private vendors, amid an uproar that the move raised costs and limited choices.
Source — The Marshall Project
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Central America and the Caribbean
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Honduras
An inmate delivers a testimony on his transfer to the supermax prison of Morocelí.
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Oceania
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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 South…
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 decade.
And…
Source — The Syndey Morning Herald
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Oceania
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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.
Source — The Independent
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New Zealand
Heart-beat detectors, security doors that unlock with a fingerprint scanner and a formidable five-layered fence are part of a complete $300m rebuild of Auckland Prison.
The rebuild of New Zealand’s only men’s maximum security prison at Paremoremo is one of the area’s biggest infrastructure projects.
Source — NZ Herald
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United Kingdom
The Alwen wing which will house more than 700 men at the £212m HMP Berwyn is on schedule for May opening*
Source — Daily Post
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Overcrowding
Romania
Marius Vulpe, the director of National Penitentiaries Administration (ANP), said Romania would need to build 8 modern prisons to solve the issue of prison overcrowding, News.ro reported. The new facilities could accommodate 8,000 to 8,500 inmates and would cost EUR 140 million each, resulting in total…
Source — Romania Insider
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Europe
Justice
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France
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Source — RTL
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Oceania
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Australia
With NSW prisons bursting at the seams, the state government will “rapid-build” a 400-inmate high-security jail at the Wellington Correctional Centre, with the facility to open later this year.
Source — The Australian
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United Kingdom
An open prison in Cheshire is well-led, with very good outcomes for prisoners and few violent incidents, according to Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prisons, Peter Clarke.
HMP and YOI Thorn Cross in Warrington, which houses about 380 inmates, was inspected in October last year.
Source — BBC
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Africa
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Tunisia
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Source — HuffPost Tunisie
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South America
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Colombia
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Source — Le Courrier
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Women
Oceania
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Australia
The first inmates have moved into WA’s new women’s jail, where the private operators are being offered cash incentives by the Government to ensure prisoners are rehabilitated.
In an Australian first, the company Sodexo will get bonus payments for ensuring inmates at Melaleuca prison do not reoffend.
If…
Source — ABC
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Europe
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Justice
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Religion
France
France’s Minister of Justice, Jean-Jacques Urvoas, announced on Tuesday the end of French prison wings for radicalized inmates, promising a new “regime” instead.
France has five prisons with experimental de-radicalisation wings for dangerous Islamist extremists, and all these units will be shut down.
Source — The Local
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