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Americas: coronavirus, prison fever / 2021

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Coronavirus: Prison Fever / 2021

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Europe: coronavirus, prison fever / 2021

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Coronavirus Europe Health Material conditions Protest

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Oceania: coronavirus, prison fever

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Middle East: coronavirus, prison fever / 2021

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Coronavirus Middle East Health Material conditions Protest

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Africa: coronavirus, prison fever / 2021

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Africa Coronavirus Health Material conditions Protest

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France: mon Noël en prison, au temps de la Covid-19

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

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United States: reproductive justice prison system

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North America Women Access to legal rights Health Mental health Material conditions Violence Social ties United States
The United States imprisons the most women in the world. Across the United States, approximately 200,000 women are incarcerated—nearly an 800 percent increase since 1980. Women of color are disproportionately affected by the criminal justice system. In 2017, twice as many Black women and 1.3 times as…

Source — New Security Beat

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Mexico: prisons, the permanent war of Covid-19

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Coronavirus Access to legal rights Health Material conditions Overcrowding Social ties Mexico
“Fighting for the law, against the penitentiary system, it’s like fighting a monster.” Decided of her conviction is the wife of an incarcerated person currently confined in Centro Varonil de Seguridad Penitenciaria I (CEVASEP I), just north of Mexico City. Her husband, falsely accused of kidnaping, has…

Source — Open democracy

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France: l’épidémie de Covid est entrée en prison

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Coronavirus Europe Health Mental health Material conditions Overcrowding Social ties France

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Russia: former political prisoner takes Russia to court over torture conditions in Crimean prison

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Hearings have begun in occupied Crimea into the lawsuit brought by Kazim Ametov against Russia’s penitentiary service and police over the inhuman conditions he was held prisoner in for over two years. The chances of a Russian-controlled “court” finding in favour of the former political prisoner are remote,…

Source — The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group

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United States: can correctional facilities negotiate phone contracts that prohibit deposit fees ?

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The high cost of calling home from prisons and jails rightly gets a lot of attention in the press, but the industry’s practice of tacking on hidden fees is getting an increasing amount of attention from regulators and the savviest correctional facilities. These fees can be called by a variety of different…

Source — Prison policy initiative

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Ireland: prison service to spend €1.6m on bras, underwear for inmates

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Women Europe Access to legal rights Material conditions Ireland
The Irish Prison Service (IPS) is set to spend more than €1.6m on bras, underwear, anoraks, and other items of clothing for inmates over the next three years. Nighties, dressing gowns, and tracksuits are among 30 categories of clothing sought by the IPS in an invitation for tenders. The successful supplier…

Source — Irish examiner

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Belgique : une délégation profite de la visite du roi Philippe pour dénoncer des "conditions indignes"

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Coronavirus Europe Access to legal rights Health Material conditions Protest Social ties Belgium

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United Kingdom: CT child advocate report, adult prison system is no place for minors

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Coronavirus Minors Europe Access to legal rights Mental health Material conditions United Kingdom
The 18-year-old didn’t want to be in jail, he told Department of Correction officials one day in 2019, as he covered the window in his cell with a sheet and mattress. He wanted to be with his family. He was being held in a “Restrictive Housing Unit” at Manson Youth Institution in Cheshire, confined to…

Source — The CT mirror

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United States: the role of plant-based food in the prison system

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British prisons and jails must provide for vegan inmates by law; as of January this year, veganism is an explicitly protected belief under the Equality Act 2010, the same as religious beliefs. This protection is not absolute, nor does veganism have legal protection everywhere in the world. In the U.S.,…

Source — Sentient Media

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United States: California law is step forward but fails to guarantee safety for trans prisoners

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North America Women Access to legal rights Justice Health Mental health Material conditions Violence United States
Syiaah Skylit has been imprisoned in California since 2015. Despite multiple requests to be placed in a women’s prison, Skylit, a Black trans woman, has always been incarcerated in the state’s men’s prisons. There, she has faced attacks by incarcerated men as well as sexual abuse and retaliation by prison…

Source — Truthout

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Philippines: Supreme Court must "get real" about prison conditions

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In a rebuke of the Supreme Court’s decision on prisoners’ plea for release during the pandemic, experts said the High Court must “get real” and see prison conditions in the Philippines for what it is – dire, and in need of judicial intervention. “We should persevere in challenging our Supreme Court…

Source — Rappler

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France : faim, manque d’hygiène et chantage, le calvaire des pauvres en prison

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