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North America
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United States
All state prison living units will, in theory, have chilled air for our triple-digit summers by 2032. Until then, we sweat.
North America
Women
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United States
The Georgia Department of Corrections has started an investigation after Sheqweetta Vaughan, an incarcerated woman serving a two-year sentence at Lee Arrendale State Prison, was found dead in her single-person cell.
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Middle East
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Iran
A 21-hour power outage at Sheiban Prison left incarcerated people in critical condition during extreme heat, human rights sources reported on Thursday. Power was cut from 9 p.m. Tuesday to 6 p.m. Wednesday as temperatures in Ahvaz exceeded 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit).
Asia
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Tajikistan
Relatives of Abdusattor Pirmukhammadzod, a Tajik journalist, report that they have not received information about his condition for the past six months. Two months ago, they complained that they had not received any news about his health and could not meet with him in Khujand prison.
Pre-trial detention
Oceania
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New Zealand
New Zealand’s prisons hold about 4,500 men and women who have not been convicted of any crime. They are on remand, by law presumed innocent, awaiting trial.
Central America and the Caribbean
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Cuba
The family of Félix Navarro complains that they cannot fully understand his health status in prison. The opposition leader, who has been imprisoned again in the Agüica prison in Matanzas since his parole was revoked last April, is ill and isolated.
United States: California sues Los Angeles County over "inhumane" conditions in its jail system
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Citing “inhumane conditions” and a “shocking rate of deaths”, Attorney General Rob Bonta on Monday announced that the state is suing Los Angeles County over conditions in its jail system.
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Lawyers requested swift cooling measures in a prison with no A/C. One man shares the dangerous conditions inside while people await a judge’s ruling
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Israel
The petition alleged that the policy of trimming down food counts as hunger and holding incarcerated people in torturous conditions, which goes against both Israeli law and international law.
Asia
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Myanmar (Burma)
A recently released political incarcerated person from Hpa-An (Taung Kalay) prison revealed that 12 political imprisoned people who had asked for more nutritious food were placed in solitary confinement and tortured by prison officials. This brutal treatment resulted in the death of one of them.
North America
Elderly prisoners
Health
United States
Minnesotans in prison are growing old — fast. Nearly 1 in 5 people incarcerated in the state is over 50, a figure that’s more than tripled since 1999. The oldest is 93. Thirteen others are in their 80s.
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Azerbaijan
There have been “suicide attempts” among incarcerated Armenian held in Azerbaijan. The suicide attempts were reported following recent phone calls between the Armenian and their relatives.
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Europe
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Azerbaijan
Vicken Euljekjian, who was taken captive during the 44-day war in 2020, has been on a hunger strike in Baku prison for 20 days.
Africa
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Sudan
A statement from the African Center for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) laments that that the prison is currently overcrowded with poor sanitation and limited access to food, clean water, and healthcare – conditions under which diseases, particularly cholera, can run rampant.
Women
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Middle East
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Iran
The incident on August 18 marked the latest decline in conditions at a prison activists have long described as a “cemetery,” a place where Iran sends its most marginalized women to vanish from public life.
North America
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United States
Facing growing pressure from advocacy groups, lawsuits and climate projections that show hotter days ahead, some state prison systems are moving to install air conditioning and expand cooling measures — though many facilities remain years away from significant upgrades.
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Women
Justice
Health
Facilities
United States
A group of incarcerated people at Michigan’s only women’s prison filed a class action lawsuit against the state, claiming they were exposed to toxic black mold for years.