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France : “je me dois de vous dire que la dite réinsertion est un combat de tous les jours”

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Europe Access to legal rights Discipline Justice Protest Rehabilitation France

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France: les détenus étrangers sous-protégés, notamment dans les Outre-mer, selon l’Observatoire international des prisons

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Foreign prisoners Europe Access to legal rights Justice Health Material conditions Overcrowding France

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Nouvelle-Zélande: une prison entièrement détruite après six jours d’émeutes

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Access to legal rights Oceania Material conditions Protest Violence New Zealand

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Irán: detengan la ejecución de un joven arrestado a los 16 años y obligado a “confesar” bajo tortura

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Minors Middle East Access to legal rights Justice Protest Death penalty Torture Violence Iran

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Arabia Saudí: la sentencia de Loujain al-Hathloul, parcialmente suspendida, sigue siendo cruel

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Women Middle East Access to legal rights Justice Protest Torture Violence Saudi Arabia

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China: jóvenes de Hong Kong en peligro de tortura tras su sentencia condenatoria en un juicio injusto

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Asia Minors Access to legal rights Justice Protest Torture Violence China

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Irán: la ejecución del periodista Rouhollah Zam, un “golpe mortal” a la libertad de expresión

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Middle East Access to legal rights Justice Death penalty Iran

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Arabie Saoudite : la militante Loujain al-Hathloul "n'aurait jamais dû être arrêtée ni mise en prison", affirme Amnesty International

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Women Middle East Access to legal rights Justice Protest Torture Violence Saudi Arabia

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Chine : jusqu'à trois ans de prison pour les HongKongais arrêtés en mer

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Asia Minors Access to legal rights Justice Protest China

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Chine : l’UE demande la libération "immédiate" de la "journaliste citoyenne" Zhang Zhan

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Women Asia Access to legal rights Justice Protest Torture Violence China

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Chine : les autorités confirment la détention de Gulshan Abbas, femme médecin ouïghoure, pour "terrorisme"

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Women Asia Long-term prisoners Access to legal rights Justice Protest China

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United States: prisons shouldn’t be charging medical co-pays, especially during a pandemic

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Coronavirus North America Access to legal rights Health United States
Despite a record number of new COVID-19 cases in prisons this month, some state departments of correction are already starting to roll back necessary suspensions of medical co-pays. Prior to the pandemic, most prison systems charged incarcerated people between $2 and $5 for each medical appointment —…

Source — Prison Policy Initiative

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Pakistan: prison reform needed

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Coronavirus Pre-trial detention Asia Access to legal rights Justice Overcrowding Social ties Alternatives Pakistan
A joint report by Amnesty International and the Justice Project Pakistan, Prisoners of the Pandemic─ The Right To Health, notes that the reduction of overcrowding in prisons during the first wave of the coronavirus epidemic was not undertaken, even the second wave was now upon us, and there was a risk…

Source — Pakistan today

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United States: new documentary released on forced sterilizations of female prisoners

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North America Women Access to legal rights Justice Health Torture Violence United States
The “freedom-loving” U.S. has been practicing the forced sterilization of its least desirable citizens since the early twentieth century. It is conservatively estimated that over 60,000 American citizens suffered this procedure until it was supposedly abolished little by little, state by state, in the…

Source — Prison Legal News

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United States: trans inmate wins federal case to get gender affirming surgery

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North America Women LGBTI Access to legal rights Justice United States
Nicole Rose Campbell was diagnosed with gender dysphoria prior to going to Racine Correctional Institute, a medium-security men’s state prison in Wisconsin. She was “permitted to receive hormone treatments, counseling, and even allowed to wear some women’s clothing” since starting her sentence, but was…

Source — LGBTQ Nation

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India: from segregation to labour, Manu’s caste law governs the prison system

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Culture Women Asia Access to legal rights Justice Religion Work India
Caste-based labour, in fact, is sanctioned in the prison manuals of many states. The colonial texts of the late 19th century have barely seen any amendments, and caste-based labour remains an untouched part of these manuals. While every state has its own unique prison manual, they are mostly based on…

Source — The Wire

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France : indignité des conditions de détention et pressions subies par un détenu de la prison de Nanterre. Le Conseil d'Etat tacle l'administration.

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Europe Access to legal rights Justice Health Material conditions France

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Turquía: nueva resolución sobre Osman Kavala deja claro que debe ser excarcelado de inmediato

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Pre-trial detention Middle East Access to legal rights Justice Turkey

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Irán: seis hombres en peligro inminente de que les amputen los dedos tras juicios injustos y tortura

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Middle East Access to legal rights Justice Death penalty Torture Violence Iran

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Egipto: estremecedor aumento de las ejecuciones revela profunda crisis de derechos humanos

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Africa Access to legal rights Justice Health Death penalty Torture Violence Egypt

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France : en Bretagne, des protections gratuites dans les prisons contre la précarité menstruelle

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Culture Women Europe Access to legal rights Justice Health Material conditions France

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France : "le "Guide du prisonnier", un concentré pédagogique du droit pénitentiaire"

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Europe Access to legal rights France

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Belgique : "on est revenu en pleine seconde vague à un taux de surpopulation assez élevé"

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Coronavirus Culture Europe Access to legal rights Discipline Justice Health Mental health Overcrowding Activities Social ties Belgium

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