Europe

January 18, 2022

Years in the Row

Analysis Comparative study

Africa Women Asia Minors Europe Foreign prisoners Discipline Health Mental health Drugs Material conditions Overcrowding Death penalty Torture

Some people fear death every morning. Others are sentenced to death in countries that no longer carry out executions. At least 483 executions were documented in 2020. Prison Insider publishes an overview of practices in nine countries that have not abolished the death penalty. Read more

January 18, 2022

Belarus: detention conditions of people sentenced to death

Analysis Comparative study

Europe Access to legal rights Material conditions Death penalty Torture Social ties Belarus

Belarus is the only European country where the death penalty is applied. Data relating to death sentences and executions are confidential. The time between trial and execution is very short. The country has been condemned several times for failing to respect the right to a fair trial. Read more

January 10, 2022

France: seen in the press / 2022

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Europe France

Violence, acts of protest, prison conditions, justice reforms: find out what is new about prisons and justice in this country. Prison Insider monitors the press on a regular basis. Read more

January 10, 2022

Belgium: seen in the press / 2022

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Europe Belgium

Violence, acts of protest, prison conditions, justice reforms: find out what is new about prisons and justice in this country. Prison Insider monitors the press on a regular basis. Read more

January 10, 2022

Spain: 2021, a year of high-profile crimes and convictions

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Europe Justice Spain

The year 2021 has been one of convictions for some of Spain’s most infamous criminals. Among those sent to prison were Pedro Nieves and the killers he hired to ambush Javier Ardines, a councilman for the United Left party in Llanes, Asturias, as he left his home on the morning of August 16, 2018. A1

Source — El País

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January 6, 2022

Ukraine : Un ancien détenu d’une prison secrète du Donbass raconte

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Europe Material conditions Torture Ukraine

This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: French

January 6, 2022

Italie : En prison, “la génération de mafiosi la plus cultivée de tous les temps”

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Culture Europe Long-term prisoners Activities Italy

This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: French

January 6, 2022

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. Read more

January 3, 2022

España: La realidad invisible de los presos con trastornos mentales: "Prisión y salud mental son antagónicos"

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Europe Mental health Spain

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December 23, 2021

Netherlands: Why the Dutch are closing prisons – and what they’re doing with empty ones

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Culture Europe Facilities Netherlands

A vast X-shaped building marks the spot on an Amsterdam map that has brought a decade-long search to a close. Spread across three maxed-out campuses, with almost 1,000 students on roll, the British School of Amsterdam had struggled to keep up with the capital’s growing demand for international educ1

Source — Positive news

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December 22, 2021

Danemark : Pourquoi le pays veut envoyer 300 détenus dans une prison du Kosovo

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Europe Justice Overcrowding Denmark

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December 14, 2021

How Europe’s prisons have fared in the Covid-19 pandemic

Analysis

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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December 9, 2021

España: Los trabajadores de las cárceles de Alicante, «abandonados» por el Ministerio del Interior

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Europe Spain

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December 9, 2021

Europa ha conseguido evitar el desastre del covid en las cárceles, pero ¿a qué precio?

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Coronavirus Europe Overcrowding

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December 8, 2021

United Kingdom: seen in the press / 2021

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Europe United Kingdom

Violence, acts of protest, prison conditions, justice reforms: find out what is new about prisons and justice in this country. Prison Insider monitors the press on a regular basis. Read more

December 7, 2021

Russia: “They’re killing us!”

News Investigations

Asia Europe Discipline Torture Russia

Prison Insider was contacted by an anonymous Russian source. They asked us to expose the abuse inflicted on prisoners in the Angarsk Penal Colony No. 15 following the riot there in April 2020. We explain how the events unfolded below. Read more

December 7, 2021

Ireland: Prison visits by children to see parents plummets

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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 som1

Source — Irish Examiner

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December 6, 2021

Suisse : Hans Wolff, “Avec la pandémie, le risque suicidaire a explosé en prison“

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Coronavirus Europe Mental health Suicide Switzerland

This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: French

December 6, 2021

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. Read more

December 2, 2021

France: place for security

Interview

Europe Justice Material conditions Overcrowding France

The increase in resources allocated to the prison administration is mainly focused on creating new prison places, to the detriment of reintegration. Organisations are outraged by this. Read more

November 23, 2021

Belgium: seen in the press / 2021

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Europe Belgium

Violence, acts of protest, prison conditions, justice reforms: find out what is new about prisons and justice in this country. Prison Insider monitors the press on a regular basis. Read more

October 28, 2021

España: Navarra implantará en la cárcel de Pamplona programas sobre salud mental e igualdad de género

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Women Europe Mental health Spain

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October 28, 2021

España: Finalizan las obras de rehabilitación de la Cárcel Vieja de Murcia

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Europe Facilities Spain

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October 18, 2021

France: for moral sociology in prison

Interview

Europe Material conditions Overcrowding Violence Rehabilitation France

How can we consider prison critique? What tools can be used to adapt the role of prisons and the meaning of sentences? Is there hope for a successful outcome? Read more