Pre-trial detention
Africa
Coronavirus
Pre-trial detention
Nigeria
At least three-quarters of Nigeria’s total prison population are inmates serving time without being sentenced, the Nigerian Correctional Service said this on Thursday.
The head of the agency, Ja’afaru Ahmed, 51,983 inmates are awaiting trial out of the prison’s total population of 73, 726 inmates.…
Coronavirus: Prison Fever
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Thematic paper
Africa
Coronavirus
North America
Central America and the Caribbean
Pre-trial detention
South America
Asia
Europe
Middle East
Health
Material conditions
Protest
Activities
What measures are taken to guarantee the safety of all prisoners and prison staff? What are the consequences of the pandemic on the living conditions in prisons? Here is an overview. — Update 31/12/2020
Argentina: negociar en desventaja por la presión de estar detenido
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Pre-trial detention
South America
Justice
Argentina
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France: la détention provisoire, une mauvaise habitude
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Pre-trial detention
Europe
France
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Global prison trends 2018
Analysis
Report
North America
Central America and the Caribbean
Pre-trial detention
South America
Women
Asia
Europe
Middle East
Long-term prisoners
Justice
Overcrowding
Penal Reform International and the Thailand Institute of Justice co-published their 2018 annual report aiming to provide a global account on the state of prisons and the use of imprisonment throughout the world.
Italy: challenges ahead
Report
Pre-trial detention
Europe
Foreign prisoners
Health
Overcrowding
Activities
Italy
The opportunity of a reform approval is now lost. Read Antigone’s full report.
Pre-trial detention
Asia
Torture
Vietnam
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France : prolongation de la détention provisoire - recours à la visioconférence et santé du détenu
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Pre-trial detention
Europe
Health
France
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The Dungeon
Portfolio
Africa
Pre-trial detention
Minors
Material conditions
Burundi
Children languishing in dark cells. They are victims of alleged arbitrary justice, and they spend years without seeing the inside of a courtroom.
Captured childhood
Portfolio
Forgotten prisoners
Portfolio
Central America and the Caribbean
Pre-trial detention
Health
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Haiti
Prisoners are waiting. Most of them will never be judged because their files are missing. Many will die.
Seyi Rhodes is a journalist. He comments some pictures he has shot.
Pre-trial detention
Minors
Overcrowding
Zambia
Chairman of Human Rights Commission says Zambian prisons do not meet international human rights standards
Waiting for justice
Portfolio
Africa
Pre-trial detention
Minors
Justice
Overcrowding
Sierra Leone
Children are incarcerated illegally in the maximum security prison of Pademba, in Sierra Leone. Fernando Moleres shares with us the daily lives of the minors in the Prison of Freetown.
Pre-trial detention
Europe
Spain
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Central America and the Caribbean
Pre-trial detention
Justice
Haiti
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Pre-trial detention
Europe
Justice
France
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Central America and the Caribbean
Pre-trial detention
Overcrowding
Haiti
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