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Central America and the Caribbean
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Honduras
An inmate delivers a testimony on his transfer to the supermax prison of Morocelí.
Oceania
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Australia
In an effort to prevent the spread of radical Islamic ideology, Australia is to build a prison facility which will isolate militants from other inmates.
The unit, named ‘Supermax II’, will be a part of Goulburn’s high-security Supermax prison and would house 54 inmates, said the Premier of New Sout…
Oceania
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Australia
The state government will spend tens of millions of dollars on a new Supermax high-security unit at Goulburn jail in a bid to prevent those convicted of terrorism from spreading extreme views, even though Corrections’ own figures show only about five inmates had been radicalised over the past decad…
South America
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Colombia
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Women
Oceania
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Australia
The first inmates have moved into WA’s new women’s jail, where the private operators are being offered cash incentives by the Government to ensure prisoners are rehabilitated.
In an Australian first, the company Sodexo will get bonus payments for ensuring inmates at Melaleuca prison do not reoffend…
Europe
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Justice
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Religion
France
France’s Minister of Justice, Jean-Jacques Urvoas, announced on Tuesday the end of French prison wings for radicalized inmates, promising a new “regime” instead.
France has five prisons with experimental de-radicalisation wings for dangerous Islamist extremists, and all these units will be shut dow…