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Africa
Overcrowding
South Sudan
South Sudan’s main juvenile detention facility is holding more than three times its intended capacity, with many children waiting years for trial, officials said on Tuesday as activists marked the Day of the African Child by calling for support and rehabilitation for young offenders.
Culture
North America
Activities
Canada
Book Clubs for Inmates planning expansion into all of Atlantic Canada’s prisons
Europe
Mental health
United Kingdom
Growing number of people in England and Wales are being released into homelessness with little support
North America
Mental health
Violence
United States
Mina Corpuz with Mississippi Today and Daja E. Henry with The Marshall Project review their deep-dive reporting into suicides in Mississippi’s prisons. Inmates — including those known to pose harm to themselves — are often locked away in solitary confinement without adequate checks on their wellbei…
America
Facilities
Overcrowding
Alternatives
Rehabilitation
Trinidad & Tobago
As the Government intensifies its fight against crime through State of Emergency measures, policing strategies and legislative reform, one of the country’s most critical crime-generating environments—the prison system—continues to operate under severe strain.
Africa
Crises
Access to legal rights
Health
Torture
Social ties
Libya
The Supreme Council of Sufism in Libya announced the discovery of the body of citizen Omar Al-Farsi (64) in the city of Benghazi, confirming that the victim had been arbitrarily detained prior to his death in prisons run by the “Madkhalis“, as it described.
Crises
Asia
Europe
Health
Mental health
Suicide
Russia
According to data from the human rights organization Memorial, more than 5,000 people in Russia are victims of political repression. At least 68 of them have died in custody over the past decade and a half, including at least six since the start of 2026.