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Canada
Ion scanners cause stress for families of prisoners, research shows.
Source — CBC
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Europe
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Belgium
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — L'Avenir
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Europe
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United Kingdom
There are calls for landline phones to be installed in prison cells in Scotland to help keep families connected.
Source — kingdom
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Africa
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Togo
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Source — DW
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Europe
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France
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Source — Vice
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Europe
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France
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Source — Capital
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United States
While the technology has its uses in the criminal justice system, it’s no substitute for in-person contact.
Recently, a feel-good video circulated on Twitter. “Orleans Parish Inmates Get Surprise Visit From Family for Good Behavior” showed incarcerated fathers holding their newborns for the first time,…
Source — Slate
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United States
Securus has had more than its share of negative headlines. In the past few years, the company, which provides technology services to prisons and jails, has been slammed by inmates’ families who say they’re charged outrageous prices to phone loved ones.
Source — The Verge
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Central America and the Caribbean
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Mexico
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Source — Huffpost
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France : voile interdit lors d’une visite en prison, "l’arbitraire, premier problème des familles"
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Europe
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France
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Source — Le Parisien
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United States
Securus Technologies’s attempt to merge with a competitor would let a company known for price-gouging inmates become larger and even more powerful.
Source — Washington monthly
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United Kingdom
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Source — Slate
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Violence
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United Kingdom
Thousands of prisoners will be able to make calls from their cells, as part of government plans to reduce violence and crime in prisons in England and Wales.
The move is part of a £30m package of measures to be announced later today by Justice Secretary David Gauke. The scheme, already in place at 20…
Source — BBC
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Europe
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France
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Source — Le Parisien
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Europe
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Belgium
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Source — Le soir
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USA: video visitation system fails at Virginia Beach jail, preventing visits for more than a week
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United States
Virginia Beach’s jail replaced face-to-face visits between inmates and their family and friends with a video visitation system in 2005. The system, however, has become increasingly unreliable and will be replaced with a new web-based one that no longer will require visitors to come to the facility.
Source — The Virginian pilot
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Europe
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France
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Source — La voix du nord
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Women
Europe
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France
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Source — Huff post
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Romania
Conjugal visits are allowed for prisoners and take place in private rooms, located inside the prison compound. Cosmin Bumbut photographed those places, when they were empty.
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Europe
Justice
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France
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Source — Le Figaro
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Europe
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France
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Source — RFI
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