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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
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Estados Unidos: informes profundamente alarmantes sobre esterilización forzosa de mujeres detenidas por el ICE
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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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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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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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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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Mapping the 'Blind Spots'
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CartONG and Planète Réfugiés-Droits de l’Homme (PRDH) united since September 2019 to create maps aimed at raising awareness about the situation of people on death row worldwide. Nine maps have been produced to date. On March 8th, on the occasion of the International Women’s Day, the two organisations…
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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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State and federal head counts have dropped 8%, largely because prisons are not accepting new inmates and many courts are closed.
Source — The Guardian
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USA: Inmates talk of COVID fear and helplessness after transfers bring ‘the beast’ to San Quentin
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Sixty-six inmates from the coronavirus-ridden California Institution for Men were on buses in late May, headed from Chino to the prison at Corcoran where Frank Estrada was incarcerated.
Source — LA Times
Read more USA: après des SOS lancés par des détenus, une prison recouvre les fenêtres
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White people in Alabama prisons were 2.6 times more likely to be paroled than Black people during the month of June, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
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Corrections centers are stocking up on electronic monitors as they release prisoners due to Covid-19.
Source — Bloomberg
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The move clears the way for the executions of four men in the coming months after a 17-year gap during which no inmate on death row for federal crimes was put to death.
Source — Le Monde
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The class action complaint details subpar hygiene protocols, lack of proper healthcare, and more at Mississippi State Penitentiary Parchman
Source — Traxmag
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A state prisoner who’d been losing a dramatic amount of weight began to vomit uncontrollably, and was repeatedly given Ibuprofen that made her internal bleeding worse before she died.
Another person behind bars waited nearly an hour for a nurse to call an ambulance after he collapsed and had a seizure.
And…
Source — The City
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Two former federal prison inmates are trying to bring a class-action lawsuit against the federal government to argue strip searches represent a “serious deprivation of liberty.”
Under federal law, prison staff can strip search inmates if they have reasonable grounds to suspect an inmate has contraband…
Source — CBC
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Every year people die in the custody of Illinois Department of Corrections, the vast majority due in part to overincarceration. COVID-19 is highlighting this fact because it is attacking the elderly and infirm, many of whom have spent decades enduring harsh prison conditions. They die lonely deaths for…
Source — Truthout
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The situation inside the nation’s jails and prisons amid the Covid-19 pandemic has become the stuff of nightmares. Overcrowding, unsanitary conditions, shortages of personal protective equipment (not to mention soap) and restrictions on hygiene products such as hand sanitizer have turned detention facilities…
Source — New York Times
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As the coronavirus established a foothold in southern New Mexico’s Otero County Prison Facility in mid-May, state officials quietly moved 39 inmates out of the massive complex near the Texas border to another prison near Santa Fe.
The inmates shared something in common: None was a sex offender.
In the…
Source — New Mexico In Depth
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“They were afraid, they were stressed, they were kept in isolation”
Source — Nunatsiaq
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The number of coronavirus cases in California’s San Quentin state prison has crossed a thousand, with more than 900 cases being diagnosed in the last two weeks alone.
Source — L'Express
Read more USA: abogados, “es probable que haya más contagiados en cárceles”
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USA: los ayuntamientos gastan lo mismo en Policía y cárceles que en sanidad y hospitales
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