Information, topic by topic, on prisons across the world

October 16, 2020

United States: inside the COVID unit at the world’s largest women’s prison

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“I am forced to make a choice on what’s more important, my freedom or my health,” Ortega said.

October 9, 2020

France: des kits d'hygiène féminine distribués gratuitement aux détenues de la maison d'arrêt de Nîmes

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October 6, 2020

Taste — 10/12

Inside Outside

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Each month, the photographer Bertrand Gaudillère creates an image or chooses one from his archives. Prison Insider sends it to a dozen participants, prisoners around the world.They are in Argentina, in the United States of America, in France, in Switzerland, in Guatemala, in Ukraine, in Colombia, i…

October 5, 2020

Argentina: por qué son cada vez más las mujeres presas por vender drogas

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September 24, 2020

México: ¿qué libro le regalarías a una mujer que está en la cárcel?

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September 24, 2020

El Salvador: el caso de Cindy Erazo y qué supone su liberación para otras 18 mujeres condenadas por la estricta ley contra la interrupción del embarazo

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September 23, 2020

France: la galère des familles de détenus après la suppression d’un arrêt de bus desservant la prison de Fleury-Mérogis

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September 18, 2020

Iran: detainees flogged, sexually abused and given electric shocks in gruesome post-protest crackdown

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Hundreds have since been sentenced to prison terms and flogging and several to the death penalty following grossly unfair trials which were presided over by biased judges behind closed doors

September 18, 2020

Estados Unidos: informes profundamente alarmantes sobre esterilización forzosa de mujeres detenidas por el ICE

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September 18, 2020

Iran: situation of women

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Torture, crackdown with water and electricity cuts in scorching heat along with coronavirus outbreak

September 15, 2020

Nicaragua: mujeres trans hablan desde las prisiones durante la COVID-19

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September 14, 2020

Mapping the 'Blind Spots'

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What are maps for? How are they produced?

September 13, 2020

Prison Insider in 2019

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Prison Insider aims to gather and provide publicly useful information on the state of prisons and detention conditions across the world. Take a look at the activities carried out in 2019 by leafing through our activity report.

September 7, 2020

Brazil: drugs, walls and being a woman

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Ranked as the world’s third-highest prison population, its number of imprisoned women is rising increasingly.

July 24, 2020

Uruguay: Salud sexual y reproductiva en cárceles: papanicolau, colposcopía, mamografía, anticoncepción y asesoramiento de IVE

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July 23, 2020

POINT de vues

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Delphine Dauphy and Marc Loyon ran photography workshops in prisons for six months. This involved visiting both Vezin-le-Coquet prison and Rennes women’s prison seven times. Every prisoner was able to take part in creating a body of images documenting their daily life.

July 1, 2020

France: Inequality of life during an epidemic

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Those imprisoned or detained are in forced confinement, states Didier Fassin. He has published a forum on the Liberation website. He questions whether the “sense of responsibility and solidarity” advocated by Emmanuel Macron stops at the doors of prisons and overcrowded detention centres.

June 22, 2020

Spain: el Congreso exige al Gobierno una auditoría de las condiciones de las mujeres en prisión

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June 10, 2020

USA: after Louisiana women's prison flooded in 2016, temporary dorms inundated with coronavirus

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In one massive room filled with rows of metal bunk beds about an arm’s length apart, 70 women share three toilets and four sinks. There’s no such thing as social distancing inside the female prison dorms that have become inundated with coronavirus cases. The high case numbers have prompted Departme…

June 9, 2020

Touch — 9/12

Inside Outside

North America South America Women Asia Europe Long-term prisoners

Each month, the photographer Bertrand Gaudillère creates an image or chooses one from his archives. Prison Insider sends it to a dozen participants, prisoners around the world.They are in Argentina, in the United States of America, in France, in Switzerland, in Guatemala, in Ukraine, in Colombia, i…

June 4, 2020

Afghanistan: life inside Kabul's women's prison during Covid-19

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Thousands of prisoners in Afghanistan have been released and pardoned as the country battles the Covid-19 pandemic. But in Kabul’s only prison facility for women, more than a hundred women, often with young children, remain behind bars. FRANCE 24 reports from Kabul. In Afghanistan’s overcrowded pri…

June 4, 2020

USA: what women dying in prison from COVID-19 tell us about female incarceration

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This article was originally published by The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Melissa Ann Horn’s name appeared over and over in court records and jail blotters in the rural Virginia county where she was born, and where she was arrested for c…

June 4, 2020

Argentina: #NiUnaMenos, desde las cárceles también

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June 4, 2020

South America: las mujeres tienen mayor riesgo de suicidio en las cárceles

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