Coronavirus
Africa
Coronavirus
Pre-trial detention
Minors
Access to legal rights
Health
Material conditions
Social ties
Togo
What is the response to offences committed by minors? In many cases, it is detention. Civil society actors express concern over the situation of minors in conflict with the law. Three key questions shed light on this issue.
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COVID-19: what’s next?
Opinion
Denmark: on behalf of prisoners
Interview
Canada: "a drop in the ocean"
Interview
Coronavirus
North America
Health
Facilities
Overcrowding
Canada
“Since prisons are such confined and notoriously unsanitary places, vaccinating the prisoners was an urgent matter. At the very least, vaccinating the oldest and most vulnerable among them was a top priority.”
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Africa
Coronavirus
Social ties
Togo
As in many African countries, family visits are crucial for many detainees as they allow relatives to bring food, clothing and medicine.
“Parents of detainees as well as friends, members of NGOs and civil society, are allowed (visits) starting on Friday 22 April,” Justice Minister Pius Kokouvi Agbe…
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Austria: through the lens of the incarcerated
Investigations
Coronavirus
Europe
Foreign prisoners
Overcrowding
Alternatives
Rehabilitation
Work
Austria
Prisons might be one of the most severely underreported spheres in our otherwise heavily investigated world. Journalist Sarah Yolanda Koss dives into Austrian prison issues.
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Coronavirus
Pre-trial detention
Minors
Mental health
Material conditions
Overcrowding
France
The Controller-General for Places of Deprivation of Liberty feels ‘useful everywhere’. One year after taking office, Dominique Simonnot responds to our questions in a candid interview.
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Austria: Final destination, Göllersdorf
Investigations
Coronavirus
Europe
Health
Mental health
Social ties
Rehabilitation
Austria
In a tiny village in Lower Austria lies one of the country’s “special institutions for mentally abnormal, unsound offenders”. Journalist Sarah Yolanda Koss dives into the everyday life of those imprisoned in the Göllersdorfer castle.
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Coronavirus
Europe
Health
Overcrowding
Prisons make fertile breeding grounds for viruses, yet administrations have revealed little about Covid-19 cases, deaths and vaccinations in Europe’s prisons. Data from 32 countries show the pandemic’s impact on prisons
Source — European Data Journalism Network
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Europa ha conseguido evitar el desastre del covid en las cárceles, pero ¿a qué precio?
News
Coronavirus
Europe
Overcrowding
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Coronavirus
Europe
Social ties
Ireland
Justice Minister Helen McEntee confirmed in a response to a parliamentary question by Right to Change TD Joan Collins that while 11,079 children physically visited an adult in prison last year, so far in 2021 the comparable figure is 2,238 children. Physical visits to prisons were suspended for som…
Source — Irish Examiner
Read more Suisse : Hans Wolff, “Avec la pandémie, le risque suicidaire a explosé en prison“
News
Coronavirus
Europe
Mental health
Suicide
Switzerland
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Austria: “Nobody knew how to deal with the virus”
Investigations
Coronavirus
Europe
Social ties
Rehabilitation
Work
Austria
Two years of Coronavirus, two incarcerated men: Journalist Sarah Yolanda Koss dives into the everyday life of two Austrian prisons.
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Bolivia: Aíslan dos cárceles por brote de covid-19 que deja 233 contagios
News
Coronavirus
South America
Bolivia
This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: Spanish
Coronavirus
Asia
Health
Material conditions
Myanmar (Burma)
Activists have endured dismal conditions while detained in Myanmar’s notorious Insein Prison since the military seized power in a coup, according to a former detainee, who said that she survived COVID-19 and other illnesses in the facility and remains haunted by her experience despite being release…
Source — Radio Free Asia
Read more Togo : Les détenus privés de visite depuis le début de la pandémie de Covid-19
News
Africa
Coronavirus
Social ties
Togo
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Roland: “Great. This again.”
Testimonial
Coronavirus
Health
Facilities
Rehabilitation
France
Roland was imprisoned for a total of 28 years. Is the lockdown a second imprisonment? Prison Insider has brought out six narratives of former prisoners. Six perspectives on the lockdown and imprisonment.
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Global Prison Trends 2021
Report
Africa
Coronavirus
Women
Asia
Minors
Europe
Middle East
Oceania
Health
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Death penalty
More than eleven million people are imprisoned around the world. Of this number, 70% are awaiting trial, a percentage that has been continuously increasing since 2000.
Source — Penal Reform International
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Global prison crisis
Interview
Africa
Coronavirus
Asia
Europe
Middle East
Oceania
Overcrowding
The world prison population is still increasing. How does the COVID-19 crisis differ from other ongoing or future crises? Are prison environments doomed to be in perpetual crisis?
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