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Coronavirus: Prison Fever / 2021
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The virus has not stopped at prison gates. 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 09/09/2021
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Indonésie : l’enfer du feu dans une prison
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Indonesia
This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: French
Asia
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Pakistan
Kazi Nazir Ahmed passed the Sindh Public Service Commission Examination for the post of Deputy Superintendent of Prison and joined the service on 3rd March 1997. Since then, he has worked in several prisons (Central Prisons, District Prisons, and Women and Juvenile prisons) in the capacity of Deputy…
Source — Daily Times
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Middle East
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Syria
SOHR has documented the death of 47,496 civilians under torture in regime’s prisons since the beginning of the Syrian revolution, all documented by names: 47,094 men and young men, 339 children under the age of eighteen, and 64 women over the age of eighteen.
Reliable sources have informed the Syrian…
Source — Syriahr
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República Dominicana: prisiones afirma recintos están abiertos para supervisión de legisladores
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Dominican Republic
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Argentina: ratas, comida podrida y heridos de “guerra”: las imágenes del abandono en las cárceles de la provincia de Buenos Aires
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Argentina
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España: la Comunitat tendrá el mayor psiquiátrico penitenciario de España, con 500 internos
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Spain
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United States: addressing the structural inequalities underlying a failing prison health system
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United States
ICPR and Prison Insider asked several experts worldwide to share their insights in the framework of the project ‘Understanding and reducing the use of imprisonment in 10 countries’. Homer Venters is a physician and epidemiologist working at the intersection of incarceration, health and human rights.…
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Africa
Women
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Kenya
Of particular note are the children who accompany their mothers to prison. According to the Kenyan constitution, Persons Deprived of Liberty Act (2014), mothers in prison are allowed to have their children accompany them until they attain the age of 4 years. While the constitution has done well to keep…
Source — Standard media
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Africa: informal governance and healthcare access in prison
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ICPR and Prison Insider asked several experts worldwide to share their insights in the framework of the project ‘Understanding and reducing the use of imprisonment in 10 countries’. Carole Berrih, a lawyer specialising in public law, focuses on the role of prisoners in the maintenance of order in Nigerian…
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Africa: health beyond epidemics
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ICPR and Prison Insider asked several experts worldwide to share their insights in the framework of the project ‘Understanding and reducing the use of imprisonment in 10 countries’. Frédéric Le Marcis focuses on epidemic responses in prison environment in different African countries.
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Myanmar (Burma)
Family members of seven detainees in Yangon’s notorious Insein Prison say that they are being mistreated by prison authorities for not complying with orders. The seven prisoners—five student activists and two freelance journalists—had been locked up together since their arrest in late February and March,…
Source — Myanmar now
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Netherlands
ICPR and Prison Insider asked several experts worldwide to share their insights in the framework of the project ‘Understanding and reducing the use of imprisonment in 10 countries’. Michiel van de Wolf discusses the Dutch approach for dealing with those considered as mentally disordered offenders.
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China
Lü’s health has deteriorated while in prison, according to a report by the Chinese human rights news website Minsheng Guancha (Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch) and the journalist’s wife, Wang Xue’e, who told CPJ in a phone interview that, during a prison visit on May 22, he looked fragile and had lost…
Source — IFEX
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Malta: Faculty for Social Wellbeing dean calls for end to solitary confinement in Malta’s prison
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Malta
The Office of the Dean of the Faculty for Social Wellbeing at the University of Malta has issued a position paper calling for the end to solitary confinement in the country.
“The practice of Solitary Confinement has been shown, through multiple empirical research publications, to be detrimental to prisoners’…
Source — Maltatoday
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Niger
On April 6, members of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) embarked on an indefinite strike over some states’ refusal to grant judiciary autonomy and financial independence.
This has led to a nationwide shut down of courts in Nigeria which stalled criminal and civil trials across the country.
Some…
Source — Politics
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Europe: the long road to human dignity
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ICPR and Prison Insider asked several experts worldwide to share their insights in the framework of the project ‘Understanding and reducing the use of imprisonment in 10 countries’. Here, Maïté de Rue discusses the overuse of pre-trial detention in Europe and its consequences.
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The Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research (ICPR) partnered with Prison Insider to share the results of one of its most extensive research projects. We invite you to learn about it below.
The world has seen unprecedented growth in prison populations in recent decades and today well over…
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España: La única cárcel para curas del mundo estaba en Zamora: celdas de 5m², torturas y el método del gusano
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Spain
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China
More than 100,000 Hongkongers have signed a petition urging prison authorities to roll out special measures such as the provision of cold water for inmates, as the city swelters under exceptionally hot weather.
The “very hot weather” alert issued by the Observatory – which warns the public of heatstroke…
Source — South China Morning Post
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Coronavirus
Asia
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Cambodia
The UN resident coordinator in Cambodia, Pauline Tamesis, told The Post on May 19 that the UN has engaged with prison authorities and humanitarian partners to assess the situation. They will provide support for the affected inmates and preparedness to prevent and contain the disease in the prison.
“In…
Source — Phnom Penh Post
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Niger: the cost of living
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Africa
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Niger
Two prisoners attest to their conditions in overpopulated prisons. A way to survive: pay, every month, for access to better prison conditions.
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Europe
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Malta
A prisoner who initiated judicial proceedings over what he describes as systematic terror inside the Corradino Correctional Facility, now claims to have been placed in solitary confinement in a fresh court application.
Brian Vella, 41, said in a court application filed on Monday that he has been banned…
Source — Malta today
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Russia
The protest in the prison in western Russia involved three people from the Russian republic of Daghestan and an Azerbaijani native.
Their relatives told Caucasian Knot that inmates were confined to punishment cells without justification and even threatened with torture for expressing dissatisfaction…
Source — OC media
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