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Honduras
In San Pedro Sula’s jailhouse, chaos reigns. The inmates, trapped in their collective misery, battle for control over every inch of their tight quarters. Farm animals and guard dogs roam free and feed off scraps, which can include a human heart. Every day is visitors’ day, and the economy bustles w…
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South America
Protest
Violence
Chile
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South America
Drugs
Brazil
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North America
Long-term prisoners
United States
The number of U.S. prisoners serving life sentences has more than quadrupled over the past three decades, and those eligible for parole are waiting longer to be released, according to a report released Tuesday.
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Asia
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Middle East
We are creating a digital mural showing how people perceive prisons around the world. We invite everyone to produce a one-minute video in reply to this question: “Prison, what does it mean to you?”
How to participate
Use your smartphone. Film in horizontal format
Start recording and count two seco…
America
Central America and the Caribbean
Health
Violence
Haiti
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America
North America
United States
The cost of imprisonment — including who benefits and who pays — is a major part of the national discussion around criminal justice policy. But prisons and jails are just one piece of the criminal justice system and the amount of media and policy attention that the various players get is not necess…
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North America
Women
United States
Mass incarceration of women was one of the important issues highlighted by the Women’s March on Washington.
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South America
Violence
Brazil
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South America
Health
Argentina
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America
Central America and the Caribbean
Pre-trial detention
Justice
Haiti
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America
South America
Protest
Violence
Brazil
Twenty-seven inmates were killed in a Brazilian prison riot that broke out on Saturday, adding to chaos in a penitentiary system in which some 140 inmates have died in gang warfare since the start of the year.
Members of a drug gang started the clash by invading a pavilion in the Alcaçuz prison tha…
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South America
Violence
Brazil
Behind the prison bloodshed is an escalating feud between Brazil’s biggest drug gangs with about 100 killed in a week.
America
South America
Overcrowding
Violence
Brazil
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South America
Brazil
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Central America and the Caribbean
Honduras
Paul Connolly writes about his experience in the rat-infested hell-hole Honduran jail.
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Central America and the Caribbean
Cuba
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Central America and the Caribbean
Mexico
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