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An unannounced inspection to a prison found it was being targeted by organised crime gangs. It found that drones were being used to get large quantities of drugs and contraband into the prison.
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El Salvador
El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot) has become a symbol of President Nayib Bukele’s government propaganda. Folha spent two hours inside the prison complex, which houses around 20,000 incarcerated people—mostly gang members—under extreme conditions.
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Nigeria
Fresh questions are being raised about Nigeria’s prison pardon and decongestion process following a recent exercise by the Lagos State Judiciary, as lawyers point to missing incarcerated people files, unexplained inclusions and exclusions, and allegations of irregular influence.
United States: for those with addiction, going into and coming out of prison can be a minefield
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At the Ninilchik Community Clinic, patient was there to treat her opioid use disorder – a shot she thought might be her last for a while since there was a warrant out for her arrest. The Alaska Department of Corrections does not provide comprehensive access to this life saving medication.
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South Sudan
A presidential pardon initiative intended as a gesture of reconciliation has been manipulated into a pay-for-freedom scheme at Juba Central Prison.
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Ireland
An unannounced inspection of Mountjoy Prison found that incarcerated people were being subjected to “degrading treatment” in conditions that did not meet minimum human rights standards.
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Ireland
The State’s human rights commission and the prisons’ inspector are to discuss legal concerns over potential breaches of European laws caused by the prison overcrowding crisis.
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New Zealand
A coroner is calling for urgent psychological support for incarcerated people before and after their release, following the death of a man who served almost 30 years of a life sentence for murder.
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Zambia
Zambia Correctional Service Commissioner General, Fredrick Chilukutu, has disclosed that the country’s prison population has exceeded 28,000, far surpassing the facilities’ holding capacity of 12,000.
India: Telangana prisons see 12% rise in incarcerated people in 2025, cybercrime cases jump 135%
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India
Telangana prisons recorded 42,566 admissions in 2025, marking an 11.8% increase compared to the previous year, with sharp rises seen in cybercrime and drunk driving cases.
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Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyz citizens serving sentences in Russian prisons are facing lengthy delays in being transferred back home.
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China
A jailed activist has lost a judicial review against a Hong Kong Correctional Services Department (CSD) rule that prohibits incarcerated women from wearing shorts in summer.
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Ireland
Ireland’s chief prison inspector says more than 600 people in jails are forced to sleep on mattresses on the floor in conditions that are “inhuman and degrading”.
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Lebanon
Warnings are mounting of an imminent humanitarian disaster inside the prison, after several deaths linked to the widespread outbreak of tuberculosis.
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Nigeria
Kala Daniel found himself trapped in awaiting trial for six long months in a Nigerian correctional centre. Initially healthy, Daniel began serious coughing within weeks of his incarceration, only to later learn that he had contracted tuberculosis.
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United Kingdom
Three more prison staff have been arrested or convicted in relation to criminal offences – while new figures from the Ministry of Justice showed that over 1,000 prison or probation staff in England and Wales have faced disciplinary action in the latest 12-month period.
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United States
Handlang has been incarcerated in men’s prisons in Missouri for 11 years. While in prison, she says she has experienced a great deal of violence and discrimination.
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At any given time, nearly 2 million individuals are incarcerated in the United States. Rooted in the legacy of slavery, intensified by the war on drugs, and sustained by deeply embedded racial inequities, the U.S. legal structure has given rise to a sprawling system of mass incarceration.