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Cuba
In this testimonial published by the Cuban Prison Documentation Center, Carlos Michael Morales, incarcerated after 11J protests, shares his experience as a prisoner in Cuba.
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Belarus
United Nations experts expressed concern over allegations of prolonged incommunicado detention and dire custody conditions in Belarus that may amount to torture.
America
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United States
A recent report found three of the six suicides in Massachusetts prisons in 2025 took place in segregated units.
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Turkey
High-security prisons known as “well-type” facilities have drawn public criticism in Türkiye due to their severe isolation conditions.
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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
New York’s state prison system has been in crisis since March, when a three-week guard strike ended with some 2,000 officers losing their jobs.
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Overcrowded facilities or incarcerated people “treated too well”, systemic violence or “five-star prisons”: what do the facts actually say? Find out via four fact-checking articles to combat disinformation on detention conditions.
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Myanmar (Burma)
A recently released political incarcerated person from Hpa-An (Taung Kalay) prison revealed that 12 political imprisoned people who had asked for more nutritious food were placed in solitary confinement and tortured by prison officials. This brutal treatment resulted in the death of one of them.
North America
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United States
Menard has been on lockdown nearly every day since September 2023, according to data from the Illinois Department of Corrections. Lockdowns, according to officials, are largely the result of short staffing. On average, Menard has only been able to staff 44% of the prison so far this year.
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Middle East
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Iran
Guards at Qezelhesar Prison in Karaj violently raided the political prisoners’ ward and executed two people, according to social media reports from a political prisoner.
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Egypt
Mohamed al-Beltagy launched an open-ended hunger strike in Badr 3 prison, slamming years of isolation, medical neglect, and systematic abuse of incarcerated people.
Africa
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Foreign prisoners
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Eswatini
Five immigrants deported by the United States to the small southern African nation of Eswatini under the Trump administration’s third-country program are being held in solitary confinement in various prisons for an undetermined time, a government spokesperson said.
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Myanmar (Burma)
Since his transfer to Obo Prison in Mandalay last month, prominent anti-coup protest leader Wai Moe Aung has suffered brutal mistreatment and been deprived of medical attention by prison authorities, according to the Political Prisoners Network-Myanmar (PPNM).
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Azerbaijan
During the meeting with his lawyer, Hasanli said he had been kept in a solitary confinement cell since June 26 and had been on a hunger strike since then. Despite his deteriorating health due to the hunger strike, he has not received medical assistance or a doctor’s examination.
Europe
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United Kingdom
The rollout of synthetic pepper spray for use to incapacitate jailed children is “wholly irresponsible” while black and minority imprisoned people are more likely to be subjected to force than white imprisoned people, a watchdog has said.
Women
Oceania
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Australia
A former incarcerated person says she documented seven suicide attempts in just four weeks inside Victoria’s maximum security women’s prison, amid a wave of lockdowns triggered by staff shortages.