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March 18, 2020

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Coronavirus: Prison Fever

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What measures are taken to guarantee the safety of all prisoners and prison staff? What are the consequences of the pandemic on the living conditions in prisons? Here is an overview. — Update 14/09/20 Read more

September 17, 2020

France : suicides en prison

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September 15, 2020

Biélorussie : les protestataires libérés racontent les tortures en prison

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September 15, 2020

France: Eric Dupond-Moretti annonce un budget 2021 "exceptionnel" pour la justice

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September 15, 2020

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

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September 15, 2020

México: las otras pandemias en las cárceles

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September 14, 2020

El Salvador: "son criminales y no están con este gobierno"

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September 14, 2020

España: el gobierno vasco urge a "adaptar la política penitenciaria a la realidad actual"

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September 14, 2020

United States: the expensive burden of parole, probation unjustly places people in a second prison

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When President Donald Trump commuted Alice Marie Johnson’s life sentence in 2018, many observers assumed that the grandmother was fully free. What they didn’t realize at the time was that Johnson, who was convicted of a first-time, nonviolent drug offense, still wore the “invisible shackle” of probation.

Source — USA today

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September 14, 2020

United Kingdom: teenage killers could spend rest of their lives in prison after "life means life" shake-up

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The government is planning to lower the age at which murderers can be jailed for life without parole from 21 to 18.

Source — Sky news

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September 14, 2020

United States: can Kentucky keep charging prisoners for their jail stay if they are found not guilty?

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Kentucky State law allows county jails to charge prisoners a daily fee during their stay while fighting their case. But what happens when the person is found not guilty of the charges and gets released? According to a February 14, 2020 ruling by the Kentucky Court of Appeals, even if the state throws…

Source — Prison Legal News

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September 14, 2020

Prisons and jails are rolling back free phone and video calls. They should be extending them instead

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Amidst a pandemic and recession, policymakers should be fighting for extended — if not permanent — financial relief for incarcerated people and their families.

Source — Prison Policy Initiative

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September 14, 2020

United States: Missouri attorney general's office pushes to keep innocent people in prison

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Its decades-long commitment to upholding convictions—even those marred by police or prosecutorial misconduct—has left Missourians languishing in prison for years.

Source — The Appeal

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September 14, 2020

France : à quand un nouveau contrôleur général des lieux de privation de liberté ?

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September 2, 2020

Thailand bets on prisons to boost tourism

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Thailand plans to turn about half its prisons into tourist attractions to boost visitor numbers as the Southeast Asian nation struggles to recover from an economic slump caused by the coronavirus outbreak.

Source — Jakarta Post

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July 30, 2020

France: punaises de lit, moisissures, surpopulation, le calvaire à la prison de Perpignan

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July 29, 2020

Colombia: Corte Constitucional avala sin muchos cambios el decreto de cárceles

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July 29, 2020

Spain: la realidad de las cárceles en la pandemia, cuando los datos esconden la verdad

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July 29, 2020

Colombia: denuncian falta de médicos y más coronavirus en cárceles

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July 29, 2020

Cambodia: ONG exigen que cumpla su promesa de liberar a 10.000 presos

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July 29, 2020

Costa Rica: Justicia confirma tres casos más del virus en cárceles

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July 29, 2020

États-Unis: People are dying in prisons, and not just from COVID-19

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Randall Jordan-Aparo, Darren Rainey and Latandra Ellington are not household names. But like Michael Brown, George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, they were killed by law enforcement officers.

Source — The Conversation

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July 29, 2020

France : Lutte contre le terrorisme, les bons et mauvais points de la Cour des comptes pour la justice

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July 29, 2020

Australia: Hepatitis C outbreak ignites debate on needle exchange in Queensland correctional centres

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Pressure is mounting on the Queensland Government to implement Needle and Syringe Programs (NSPs) in the state’s correctional centres amid an outbreak of hepatitis C at a Far North Queensland prison.

Source — ABC net

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