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Africa
Access to legal rights
Discipline
Material conditions
Zimbabwe
Emmerson Mnangagwa has urged prison officers to be disciplined and uphold human rights principles when handling inmates in the course of their duties.
North America
Health
Material conditions
United States
Democratic lawmakers are introducing a package of legislation that they say will counter inhumane conditions in Wisconsin’s prisons and county jails.
Asia
Access to legal rights
Health
Mental health
Facilities
India
Poor facilities in prisons & restricted healthcare access can lead to inmates suffering from bad mental health.
Africa
Access to legal rights
Justice
Death penalty
Nigeria
Bodies canvassing for the abolishment of death penalty for capital offenders in the country have commenced comprehensive training for Nigerian lawyers to increase their commitment to pro bono legal services.
Europe
Health
Material conditions
United Kingdom
Prisoners in some facilities forced to defecate in buckets overnight, a practice outlawed in 1996.
North America
Material conditions
United States
The Missouri Justice Coalition is about to launch its first town hall tour focusing on state prison conditions.
North America
Mental health
Material conditions
United States
The position appears to have been eliminated last year.
Africa
Pre-trial detention
Justice
Nigeria
Three years after violent suppression of nationwide #EndSARS protests against police brutality, at least fifteen protesters arrested in 2020 are still being arbitrarily detained – the majority of them without trial – in Kirikiri Medium Correctional Centre and Ikoyi Medium Security Correctional Cent…
Middle East
Facilities
Alternatives
Rehabilitation
Bahrain
The International Ombudsman Institute “IOI” President Chris Field has praised Bahrain’s open prison and rehabilitation center in Hamala, calling it a “model that can be used in other countries”.
North America
Health
Mental health
United States
Eleven days after 57-year-old Anthony Talotta arrived at a Pittsburgh jail, he died from what his family says was a treatable and preventable infection from a foot wound.
Europe
Material conditions
Work
United Kingdom
Dartmoor Prison is failing to provide adequate living conditions, education and work opportunities for its inmates, says an inspectors’ report.
Middle East
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Israel
One in every five Palestinians has been arrested and charged under the 1,600 military orders that control every aspect of the lives of Palestinians living under the Israeli military occupation. That incarceration rate doubles for Palestinian men — two in every five have been arrested.