Information, topic by topic, on prisons across the world

May 29, 2020

France: crise du Covid-19, une occasion historique pour les prisons

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Coronavirus Europe Health Overcrowding France

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May 28, 2020

USA: how to hide a covid-19 hotspot? Pretend prisoners don’t exist

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Coronavirus North America Health United States

A county trying to reopen its economy wrestles with a virus outbreak in prison.

May 28, 2020

USA: will the Coronavirus make us rethink mass incarceration?

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Coronavirus North America Overcrowding United States

Community groups have pointed out the social costs of the prison system for decades. Now the pandemic has exposed its public-health risks.

May 28, 2020

USA: when parole doesn’t mean release, the senseless “program requirements” keeping people behind bars during a pandemic

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Coronavirus North America Justice Health United States

Parole boards are granting parole contingent on participation in programs that are often not readily available for people behind bars, especially during the pandemic.

May 28, 2020

Honduras: prison brawl leaves six dead, two injured

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Central America and the Caribbean Protest Violence Honduras

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Six inmates died and two more were injured between Saturday night and Sunday morning in a violent brawl in a Honduran women’s prison home to 835, part of which was set on fire, a prison official said on Sunday. The brawl started on Saturday night in the National Women’s Peni…

May 28, 2020

Mexico: eight inmates killed in prison fight

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Central America and the Caribbean Violence Mexico

PUENTE GRANDE, Mexico (Reuters) - A violent clash at a prison in Mexico’s central state of Jalisco on Friday left eight inmates dead and another eight prisoners hospitalized with injuries, state security officials said. During the incident at a jail in the Puente Grande complex, three people were k…

May 28, 2020

France: le ministère de la justice veut limiter les emballements de sortie de crise

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Coronavirus Europe Justice France

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May 28, 2020

France: la reprise des parloirs, très encadrée, laisse détenus et familles "frustrés"

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Coronavirus Europe Health Social ties France

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May 28, 2020

France: ce que le confinement nous a fait vivre doit nous interroger sur la prison

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Coronavirus Europe Justice Health France

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May 28, 2020

France: “Le Grand Jour, de la prison à l’Odéon” sur LCP, le théâtre pour briser ses chaînes

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Culture Europe Activities France

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May 28, 2020

USA: en Floride, des milliers d’anciens détenus pourraient retrouver leur droit de vote

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North America Access to legal rights Justice United States

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May 28, 2020

Lockdown is not imprisonment!

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Coronavirus Discipline Justice Material conditions Alternatives France

Finally free? Two researchers discuss the parallels between lockdown and incarceration. In their opinion, comparisons with prison are misleading.

May 27, 2020

USA: cleaning supplies are so scarce at this arizona prison, detainees are using shampoo and menstrual pads, lawsuit says

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Coronavirus North America Health Material conditions United States

The plaintiffs want an independent expert to assess whether the facility has implemented social distancing measures, testing procedures, and hygiene practices adequate enough to reasonably protect detainees from contracting COVID-19 while in custody.

May 27, 2020

USA: COVID-19 takes a hidden toll behind bars

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Coronavirus North America Health United States

COVID-19 is spreading rapidly in U.S. jails and prisons, but testing of inmates and staff remains spotty and many confirmed cases are going unreported. The resulting lack of data has deep implications for the fight against the virus, because prison outbreaks can move easily to surrounding communiti…

May 27, 2020

France: pourquoi la crise sanitaire révèle les dysfonctionnements du “tout carcéral”

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Coronavirus Europe Justice France

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May 27, 2020

USA: 'people are sick all around me', inside the coronavirus catastrophe in California prisons

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Coronavirus North America Health United States

Prisoners and advocates told the Guardian that some infected inmates are in isolation without medical care or adequate food, cut off from family and attorneys

May 27, 2020

Canada: décès d’un autre prisonnier, les proches des détenus lancent un appel à l’aide

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Coronavirus North America Health Canada

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May 20, 2020

USA: a nation of prisons and pandemics

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Coronavirus North America Health Overcrowding United States

The United States Penitentiary Canaan holds about 1,300 people. Qwantay A. is one of them. He has been incarcerated for 16 years and will be released in 2034. He drew some parallels between the coronavirus pandemic and mass incarceration, and shared his thoughts with Prison Insider.

May 20, 2020

Colombia: siete horas de angustia en La Modelo

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Coronavirus South America Violence Colombia

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May 20, 2020

Argentina: impulsan la continuidad educativa de estudiantes privados de la libertad en cárceles bonaerenses

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South America Activities Argentina

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May 20, 2020

Argentina: ¿para qué está la cárcel?

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Coronavirus South America Women LGBTQI Material conditions Overcrowding Argentina

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May 20, 2020

Spain: el coronavirus acaba con las muertes por sobredosis en las cárceles

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Coronavirus Europe Health Drugs Spain

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May 20, 2020

Paraguay: reo y su pareja, a cuarentena tras cada encuentro íntimo

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Coronavirus South America Health Social ties Paraguay

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May 19, 2020

Australia: 'my son should not have died', prison death of Indigenous man is much more than an 'isolated tragedy'

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Oceania Australia

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people account for just two per cent of Australia’s population but about 27 per cent of its prisoners.