Information, topic by topic, on prisons across the world

May 14, 2019

Belgium: l’Etat condamné à indemniser des détenus radicalisés

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April 23, 2019

United States of America: solitary confinement worsens mental illness

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Prisoners who volunteered for a mental health diversion program say promises of therapy and time out of their cells weren’t fulfilled. And Texas prison officials aren’t regularly tracking success rates — even as they ask lawmakers to fund an expansion of the program.

March 19, 2019

France: une prison dans la prison pour les détenus radicalisés recruteurs

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March 17, 2019

Taipei: suicide caused by poor conditions at prison, report says

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One suicide and several suicide attempts have resulted from poor conditions at the Lyudao Prison on Taitung County’s Green Island (綠島), three Control Yuan members said yesterday, citing an investigation they conducted.

February 19, 2019

USA: One of America's harshest isolation units was exposed by a desperate, handwritten account from the inside

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A Georgia solitary confinement unit was filled with the “cacophony of prisoner screams and cries for help,” a prisons expert said after visiting.

February 19, 2019

France: from the pen to the polls

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Europe Access to legal rights Discipline France

As of 1994, convicted people are no longer stripped of their civil rights. In principle, the majority of prisoners retain their right to vote. However, only 2% of them were able to vote during the last presidential elections. Incarceration prevents many prisoners from exercising this right. The Ro…

December 24, 2018

USA: thousands held in NY's prisons will spend the holidays in solitary confinement

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Roger Clark still remembers Christmas in solitary confinement. Clark spent five years at Southport Correctional Facility, New York’s first supermax prison dedicated to 23-hour lockdown, after defending himself from another prisoner’s assault.

December 17, 2018

France: lutter contre le danger de la radicalisation en prison [video]

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Europe Discipline Religion France

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December 13, 2018

France: en prison, comment les détenus radicalisés sont-ils suivis à leur sortie ?

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November 5, 2018

Canada: Length of solitary stays increasing in Ontario prisons

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Five years after Ontario vowed to curtail its use of solitary confinement, average inmate stays in segregation cells have grown longer, with one prisoner in Ottawa remaining in isolation for at least 835 days, according to newly released provincial data.

October 16, 2018

Canada : feds aim to replace solitary confinement in prisons with ‘structured intervention units’

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Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale has tabled a new bill in the House of Commons aimed at ridding Canadian prisons of solitary confinement. Bill C-83 suggests designating “a penitentiary or an area in a penitentiary as a structured intervention unit for the confinement of inmates who cannot be ma…

October 10, 2018

Croatie: end confinement of people with disabilities

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Croatia’s government should end the confinement of children and adults in institutions, five disabled people’s and human rights organizations said today in a letter to Prime Minister Andrej Plenković. Despite some initial progress, the process of moving people out of institutions and into community…

October 9, 2018

UK: prison pepper spray plan risks inmate safety, rights body says

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Use of Pava by prison officers could cause pain and serious injury, UK watchdog says.

September 24, 2018

France: un quartier pour radicalisés dans la prison de Condé-sur-Sarthe

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August 21, 2018

France : isoler ou "réinsérer" ? Le dilemme de la prison face aux personnes impliquées dans des affaires de terrorisme

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July 22, 2018

USA: reforming solitary confinement at an infamous California prison

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Oprah Winfrey visits Pelican Bay State Prison where she reports on conditions in the “SHU” isolation unit and on a nationwide reform movement that is reducing the use of solitary confinement.

May 2, 2018

UK: solitary confinement of children and young people

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Last week, in a joint statement, the British Medical Association (BMA), the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health called for an end to the solitary confinement of children and young people held in UK detention facilities.

April 23, 2018

Japan: a voice coming out of isolation

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“Every day, I took many tranquillisers”. Testimonial of M. Iwazaki, imprisoned for 15 years in a prison in Chiba (Japan)

April 16, 2018

France : la prison ultrasécurisée d'Alençon prépare l'arrivée de détenus radicalisés

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April 15, 2018

France : conditions de détention des terroristes, les pratiques de Fleury-Mérogis en question

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April 10, 2018

USA: solitary confinement of mentally ill persists in Oregon prison

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The more than three dozen men incarcerated in the behavioral health unit at the Oregon State Penitentiary spend almost 23 hours a day confined to a dark, small cell — a practice akin to “torture,” according to disability rights leaders.

February 23, 2018

France : prévention de la radicalisation, un virage à 180 degrés de la doctrine pénitentiaire

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Europe Discipline Justice France

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December 1, 2017

Turkey: elderly prisoner gets 11 days in solitary for expressing hope for release

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Ali Osman Karahan, an 87-year-old Turkish man who has been in an Isparta prison for almost 15 months over alleged links to the Gülen movement, was given 11 days of solitary confinement.

September 13, 2017

Canada : les cellules d’isolement des détenus contestées devant la Cour

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