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An overlooked tragedy
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Europe
Suicide
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France
After Slovenia, our country has the highest rate of prison suicide in Europe. How can this be? There are numerous causes, but they can be examined by asking two questions: who is being punished? How are they being punished? The first one is a penal policy question; the second a prison policy one.
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Deplorable prison conditions in Ukraine
Analysis
Report
On February 7, 2018, NGO Ukraine Without Torture made a monitoring visit to the Ladyzhin Correctional Colony (No. 39), located in the Vinnytsia region (west border). They were accompanied by members of the Department for the implementation of the national preventive mechanism and representatives of…
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Improving Italian prisons
Analysis
Report
Monitoring prisons, studies on discrimination against foreigners, proposals on justice to the legislative candidates, reform for the penitentiary code and report on Italy’s juvenile detention facilities. Overview of the different spheres of action and militant activities of the italian association,…
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South America
Health
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Uruguay
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In Russia, the prisoners are dragged around
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Asia
Europe
Overcrowding
Torture
Violence
Russia
— Published 13 December 2017.¶
“The prisoner becomes a package that is sent from a point A to a point B along some cunning logistical route” – Ivan Pavlov, human rights lawyer
A 3.5 square meter train wagon shared by 20 prisoners for journeys going up to a month: welcome to the reality of prisoners…
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#VotoPreso - A party where prisoners are not invited
Analysis
Opinion
South America
Access to legal rights
Justice
Chile
Chileans are preparing to vote for the second round of the 2017 presidential elections this coming December 17. Country with one of the highest incarceration rates in Latin America, the vote of its prison population can weigh heavily in an election that is likely to be tight.
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Alarming prison conditions of political prisoners in Morocco
Analysis
Report
Africa
Health
Violence
Morocco
A short report sheds light on alarming prison conditions of political prisoners in Morocco.
Nineteen prisoners were separated and sent in 7 different prisons thoughout Morocco.
Since their transfer almost all prisoners entered a hunger strike in protest against the conditions they are currently hel…
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"Surviving hell" in Eastern Ukraine
Analysis
Report
Europe
Justice
Torture
Violence
Ukraine
Prison Insider’s correspondents in Ukraine shared several materials describing the conditions of detention in the Donbas region, in the East of the country. It is composed of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. Due to the crisis which started in 2014, Ukraine is divided between the so-called pro Europ…
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Nepal: the challenges of achieving justice
Analysis
Report
Asia
Justice
Torture
Nepal
For the first time in more than ten years, our correspondent in Nepal, Advocacy Forum (AF), is not in a position to conduct an assessment of whether the overall situation in regard of torture in police custody, during the last year, has improved or deteriorated.
This is due to a lack of cooperation…
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Political police torture in Caracas (Venezuela)
Analysis
Report
South America
Torture
Violence
Venezuela
Electric shocks, beatings, waterboarding, asphyxiation with chemicals… The Venezuelan government, engulfed in an endless political crisis, reacts to protest movements with torture and arbitrary detentions. The Venezuelan NGO “A Window to Freedom” denounces these practices in its latest report (in S…
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Use and over-use of imprisonment worldwide
Analysis
Report
Across much of the world, recent decades have seen rapid and unrelenting growth in the use of imprisonment as a response to crime and social disorder.
Today, well over 10 million people are imprisoned worldwide. Jurisdictions that have seen the fastest growth in prisoner numbers include the United…
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Annual penal statistics
Analysis
Report
Europe
Justice
Overcrowding
On 1st September 2015, there were 1 404 398 inmates held in penal institutions across Europe. On the same date in 2014, there were 1 507 278 inmates (for the exactly same prison administrations and, in 2013 there were 1 529 447 inmates. The total number of inmates has been decreasing.
The median pr…
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When murder occurs in the name of justice
Analysis
Opinion
Middle East
Justice
Death penalty
Seven death sentences are pronounced, in the first two months of 2017, in Palestine.
The Human Rights and Democracy Media Centers SHAMS published, in January 2017, a report on the use of death penalty in Palestine during 2016. The Palestinian National Authority (PNA), lead by the Hamas, issued 21 d…
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TEPSIS Papers
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Minors
Access to legal rights
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Alternatives
Work
The Réseau monde carcéral is a network of doctoral students, researchers and prison professionals.
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