Facilities
Central America and the Caribbean
Facilities
Rehabilitation
Trinidad & Tobago
Between 2020 and 2025, amid growing public pressure and a criminal justice system in crisis, the PNM Government announced several plans to modernise the nation’s prisons.
Concrete to counter overcrowding?
Analysis
Europe
Justice
Material conditions
Facilities
Overcrowding
Alternatives
Could building prisons help address overcrowding? Prison Insider takes apart, brick by brick, the fragile foundations of this proposition in the second article of our fact-checking series.
Africa
Material conditions
Facilities
Overcrowding
South Sudan
Yambio Central Prison, a colonial-era facility built in Western Equatoria State in the 1940s, requires urgent renovation due to deteriorating infrastructure and poor living conditions for incarcerated people, a senior prison official said.
Pre-trial detention
Europe
Material conditions
Facilities
Overcrowding
Ireland
There are 376 people in Cork prison today, a new overcrowding record and representing 127% capacity, making it the most overcrowded men’s prison in the country.
Women
Europe
Health
Material conditions
Facilities
Cyprus
The prisons department sought to rubbish allegations of unhygienic conditions for incarcerated people – including tainted food and unclean showers – attributing such claims to “ulterior motives”.
Crises
North America
Material conditions
Facilities
United States
Incarcerated people at the Lancaster County Prison endured extreme heat as temperatures this week soared to the high 90s and felt like over 100 degrees in some spots.
South America
Foreign prisoners
Material conditions
Facilities
Overcrowding
Peru
Peru is weighing sending what it considers highly dangerous foreign incarcerated people to prisons in El Salvador, the prime minister said, potentially following in the footsteps of the U.S.’ deportations of migrants to the Central American nation.
Europe
Facilities
Social ties
Malta
There have been 100 people in prison and a total of 177 children under the age of fourteen who have made use of the visiting facility in Marsa intended for residents of the Corradino Correctional Facility to be able to meet with their children outside of the prison.
Culture
Oceania
Health
Mental health
Material conditions
Facilities
New Zealand
The Government has opened a new 596-bed facility at Waikeria Prison. It comprises 28 buildings across 21 hectares, 14 kilometres south of Te Awamutu.
Prison: a five-star hotel?
Analysis
Europe
Material conditions
Facilities
Overcrowding
Activities
Social ties
Work
Are prisons actually luxury hotels? In the first episode of our fact-checking series, Prison Insider responds by drawing on the daily reality of life in prisons.
Central America and the Caribbean
Foreign prisoners
Access to legal rights
Material conditions
Facilities
Religion
El Salvador
The country’s Catholic bishops have published a pastoral letterwarning of the risk of turning the Central American nation into a “large international prison” and demanding an end to the state of emergency.
North America
Facilities
United States
Donald Trump has doubled down on his proposal to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the once-notorious prison island in the icy waters of San Francisco Bay. Alcatraz - popularly known as “the Rock” - has not been used as a prison for decades. It is now a historic landmark visited by millions of tourists.
Crises
Pre-trial detention
Asia
Foreign prisoners
Access to legal rights
Material conditions
Facilities
Torture
Violence
Social ties
Russia
Russia is holding an estimated 16,000 civilians in arbitrary detention at 180 separate facilities. Taganrog was the most notorious.