Information, topic by topic, on prisons across the world

January 20, 2022

Suisse : Champ-Dollon, prison impossible à réformer

News

Europe Switzerland

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January 18, 2022

Years in the Row

Analysis Thematic paper

Africa Women Asia Europe Minors Foreign prisoners Discipline Health Mental health Drugs Material conditions Overcrowding Death penalty Torture

Some people fear death every morning. Others are sentenced to death in countries that no longer carry out executions. At least 483 executions were documented in 2020. Prison Insider publishes an overview of practices in nine countries that have not abolished the death penalty.

January 18, 2022

Belarus: detention conditions of people sentenced to death

Analysis

Europe Access to legal rights Material conditions Death penalty Torture Social ties Belarus

Belarus is the only European country where the death penalty is applied. Data relating to death sentences and executions are confidential. The time between trial and execution is very short. The country has been condemned several times for failing to respect the right to a fair trial.

January 11, 2022

United Kingdom: seen in the press / 2022

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Europe United Kingdom

Violence, acts of protest, prison conditions, justice reforms: find out what is new about prisons and justice in this country. Prison Insider monitors the press on a regular basis.

January 10, 2022

France: seen in the press / 2022

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Europe France

Violence, acts of protest, prison conditions, justice reforms: find out what is new about prisons and justice in this country. Prison Insider monitors the press on a regular basis.

January 10, 2022

Belgium: seen in the press / 2022

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Europe Belgium

Violence, acts of protest, prison conditions, justice reforms: find out what is new about prisons and justice in this country. Prison Insider monitors the press on a regular basis.

January 10, 2022

Spain: 2021, a year of high-profile crimes and convictions

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Europe Justice Spain

Judges handed down prison sentences against the perpetrators of murders that shocked the nation, such as the killing of the schoolteacher Laura Luelmo.

January 10, 2022

Turkey: seen in the press / 2022

News

Europe Turkey

Violence, acts of protest, prison conditions, justice reforms: find out what is new about prisons and justice in this country. Prison Insider monitors the press on a regular basis.

January 6, 2022

Ukraine : Un ancien détenu d’une prison secrète du Donbass raconte

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Europe Material conditions Torture Ukraine

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January 6, 2022

Italie : En prison, “la génération de mafiosi la plus cultivée de tous les temps”

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Culture Europe Long-term prisoners Activities Italy

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January 6, 2022

Austria: Final destination, Göllersdorf

Investigations

Coronavirus Europe Health Mental health Social ties Rehabilitation Austria

In a tiny village in Lower Austria lies one of the country’s “special institutions for mentally abnormal, unsound offenders”. Journalist Sarah Yolanda Koss dives into the everyday life of those imprisoned in the Göllersdorfer castle.

January 3, 2022

España: La realidad invisible de los presos con trastornos mentales: "Prisión y salud mental son antagónicos"

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Europe Mental health Spain

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December 23, 2021

Netherlands: Why the Dutch are closing prisons – and what they’re doing with empty ones

News

Culture Europe Facilities Netherlands

The Netherlands has reduced its prison population to such a degree that it’s now turning old prisons into socially useful buildings, such as schools and refugee centres. What went right?

December 22, 2021

Danemark : Pourquoi le pays veut envoyer 300 détenus dans une prison du Kosovo

News

Europe Justice Overcrowding Denmark

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December 14, 2021

How Europe’s prisons have fared in the Covid-19 pandemic

Analysis

Coronavirus Europe Health Overcrowding

Prisons make fertile breeding grounds for viruses, yet administrations have revealed little about Covid-19 cases, deaths and vaccinations in Europe’s prisons. Data from 32 countries show the pandemic’s impact on prisons

December 9, 2021

España: Los trabajadores de las cárceles de Alicante, «abandonados» por el Ministerio del Interior

News

Europe Spain

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December 9, 2021

Europa ha conseguido evitar el desastre del covid en las cárceles, pero ¿a qué precio?

News

Coronavirus Europe Overcrowding

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December 8, 2021

United Kingdom: seen in the press / 2021

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Europe United Kingdom

Violence, acts of protest, prison conditions, justice reforms: find out what is new about prisons and justice in this country. Prison Insider monitors the press on a regular basis.

December 7, 2021

Russia: “They’re killing us!”

News Investigations

Asia Europe Discipline Torture Russia

Prison Insider was contacted by an anonymous Russian source. They asked us to expose the abuse inflicted on prisoners in the Angarsk Penal Colony No. 15 following the riot there in April 2020. We explain how the events unfolded below.

December 7, 2021

Ireland: Prison visits by children to see parents plummets

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Coronavirus Europe Social ties Ireland

The number of children who have visited a parent in prison this year has plummeted to just a fraction of the figure for last year.

December 6, 2021

Suisse : Hans Wolff, “Avec la pandémie, le risque suicidaire a explosé en prison“

News

Coronavirus Europe Mental health Suicide Switzerland

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December 6, 2021

Austria: “Nobody knew how to deal with the virus”

Investigations

Coronavirus Europe Social ties Rehabilitation Work Austria

Two years of Coronavirus, two incarcerated men: Journalist Sarah Yolanda Koss dives into the everyday life of two Austrian prisons.

December 2, 2021

France: place for security

Interview

Europe Justice Material conditions Overcrowding France

The increase in resources allocated to the prison administration is mainly focused on creating new prison places, to the detriment of reintegration. Organisations are outraged by this.

November 23, 2021

Belgium: seen in the press / 2021

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Europe Belgium

Violence, acts of protest, prison conditions, justice reforms: find out what is new about prisons and justice in this country. Prison Insider monitors the press on a regular basis.