Access to legal rights
South Africa: resonating stories
Testimonial
Africa
Access to legal rights
Material conditions
Facilities
Activities
South Africa
Five former prisoners share their experiences in South African prisons. Incarcerated for different lengths of time, at different periods and in different facilities, these diverse perspectives highlight the challenges faced by prisoners in South Africa.
Africa
Access to legal rights
Discipline
Material conditions
Zimbabwe
Emmerson Mnangagwa has urged prison officers to be disciplined and uphold human rights principles when handling inmates in the course of their duties.
Asia
Access to legal rights
Health
Mental health
Facilities
India
Poor facilities in prisons & restricted healthcare access can lead to inmates suffering from bad mental health.
Africa
Access to legal rights
Justice
Death penalty
Nigeria
Bodies canvassing for the abolishment of death penalty for capital offenders in the country have commenced comprehensive training for Nigerian lawyers to increase their commitment to pro bono legal services.
Africa
Pre-trial detention
Women
Minors
Foreign prisoners
LGBTQI
Long-term prisoners
Access to legal rights
Discipline
Justice
Health
Mental health
Material conditions
Suicide
Overcrowding
Torture
Violence
Activities
Social ties
Work
Congo - Brazzaville
All there is to know about Congolese prisons in 2023. Key figures, life in detention, references: discover all the data gathered by Prison Insider.
Asia
Access to legal rights
Justice
India
In 1972, the Wildlife Protection Act was established to protect wildlife in India. It has led, however, to the criminalisation of an already marginalised part of the population: the forest-dwelling communities. The CPA project told us what this means in practice.
Kenya: left behind
Interview
Africa
Access to legal rights
Justice
Mental health
Kenya
Misunderstood and excluded by their peers, people with mental health conditions are more likely to end up in prison. Once incarcerated, their ostracization is striking. The NGO Tunawiri addresses this issue by providing training to incarcerated people and prison staff. Interview.
Caught in the spiral
Thematic paper
Africa
Pre-trial detention
Asia
Access to legal rights
Justice
Drugs
Alternatives
Rehabilitation
What are the human and social costs of the recourse to imprisonment? This series explores the experiences of various civil society organisations, formerly incarcerated people, researchers and policy makers challenging the criminalisation of poverty, status or activism.
Oceania
Access to legal rights
Social ties
New Zealand
Close to 700 prisoners at one of the country’s biggest jails will soon be able to receive in-person visits for the first time since the pandemic started.
Africa
Access to legal rights
Torture
Violence
Egypt
The new prison of Badr which Egypt touted as a model for reform denies inmates healthcare
Canada: bringing law into prisons
Interview
Belgium : prisons in 2023
Analysis
Pre-trial detention
Women
Minors
Europe
Foreign prisoners
LGBTQI
Long-term prisoners
Access to legal rights
Discipline
Justice
Health
Mental health
Material conditions
Suicide
Overcrowding
Torture
Violence
Activities
Social ties
Work
Belgium
All there is to know about Congolese prisons in 2023. Key figures, life in detention, references: discover all the data gathered by Prison Insider.
France : prisons in 2022
Analysis
Pre-trial detention
Women
Minors
Europe
Foreign prisoners
LGBTQI
Long-term prisoners
Access to legal rights
Discipline
Justice
Health
Mental health
Material conditions
Suicide
Overcrowding
Torture
Violence
Activities
Social ties
Work
France
All there is to know about French prisons in 2022. Key figures, life in detention, references: discover all the data gathered by Prison Insider.
Middle East
Access to legal rights
Health
Iran
Atena Daemi, a human rights activist, has reported the dire situation for female inmates in Iran’s notorious Evin prison in a series of posts on Twitter.
Argentina: el papa Francisco criticó “el deterioro de las condiciones de detención”
News
South America
Access to legal rights
Justice
Argentina
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Argentina: debate por mejorar las condiciones en cárceles y alcaidías bonaerenses
News
South America
Access to legal rights
Justice
Argentina
This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: Spanish
Argentina: elaboración de un informe sobre las condiciones de detención en Entre Ríos
News
South America
Access to legal rights
Justice
Argentina
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Russia: Navalni denuncia un endurecimiento de las condiciones de detención
News
Asia
Access to legal rights
Material conditions
Russia
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Africa
Coronavirus
Pre-trial detention
Minors
Access to legal rights
Health
Material conditions
Social ties
Togo
What is the response to offences committed by minors? In many cases, it is detention. Civil society actors express concern over the situation of minors in conflict with the law. Three key questions shed light on this issue.
Africa
Culture
Asia
Europe
Middle East
Access to legal rights
Justice
Health
Drugs
Overcrowding
Rehabilitation
Dr. Dreisinger is the founder of the Incarceration Nations Network (INN), an international community that works to support, instigate and popularize prison reform efforts around the world. Prison Insider met her in Lyon during a joint screening of the docuseries. We asked her three questions in a v…
Pakistan: submerged and forgotten
Interview
Asia
Access to legal rights
Health
Material conditions
Pakistan
Pakistan experienced torrential rains between June and September 2022. The floods submerged a third of the country. What about prisons? Zainab Mahboob and Fakhra Irshad from Justice Project Pakistan shared with us what they know about the current situation. Interview.
Africa
Minors
Access to legal rights
Justice
Guinea
Nordine Drici is a historian and legal expert on prisoners’ rights. He wrote an overview of the penitentiary situation in Guinea, examining access to justice in the country. This expert evaluation formed part of a training programme (under the RESPECT project) that he provided for Lawyers Without B…
Denmark: on behalf of prisoners
Interview