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March 18, 2020

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Coronavirus: Prison Fever

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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 03/07/20 Read more

July 6, 2020

Dura crítica del Defensor del Pueblo a la crueldad en las cárceles españolas

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July 1, 2020

France: Inequality of life during an epidemic

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Those imprisoned or detained are in forced confinement, states Didier Fassin. He has published a forum on the Liberation website. He questions whether the “sense of responsibility and solidarity” advocated by Emmanuel Macron stops at the doors of prisons and overcrowded detention centres.

Source — Libération

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July 1, 2020

France: “They make me panic”

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Samy has chronic bronchitis. Due to a lack of care units, he has recently been transferred from a semi-custodial facility to the “new arrivals” unit of Mans detention centre. He recounts his detention conditions. Read more

June 24, 2020

France: le bracelet électronique pour les ex-détenus terroristes, une mesure votée par les députés

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June 24, 2020

France: la prison altère le fonctionnement du cerveau

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June 24, 2020

France: déconfinement en prison, "le gel hydroalcoolique est banni, au cas où je voudrais le boire !"

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June 24, 2020

Europe: post-coronavirus podría tener las cárceles más vacías

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June 23, 2020

UK: "A day in the life of a Prison Nurse"

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My day starts at 07.30am, when we receive handover in a multipurpose room off one of the wings. It’s a Victorian prison: space is tight. A lone cockroach scuttles back into the safety of darkness. At night only cell doors are locked and it’s always odd to walk through open gates. After the night nurse’s…

Source — Nursingnotes

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June 22, 2020

Europe: le confinement a réduit la surpopulation carcérale

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June 22, 2020

Spain: el Congreso exige al Gobierno una auditoría de las condiciones de las mujeres en prisión

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June 18, 2020

Global Prison Trends 2020

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Over 11 million people are held in prisons worldwide. Many face substandard detention conditions. Sentences keep getting longer, in underfunded justice systems. PRI has published its annual report on the state of prisons and the use of imprisonment: Global Prison Trends 2020. Read more

June 17, 2020

Spain: ¿te imaginas cómo es la desescalada en una cárcel de Castellón?

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June 17, 2020

UK: trans and in prison during a pandemic, a rare glimpse behind bars

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Overcrowded, confined spaces are a nightmare for the spread of coronavirus. This makes prisons a potential hotspot for the disease. Despite this, most researchers who study prisons have been locked out of them at this crucial time. In the UK, the prison and probation service has halted primary research…

Source — The Conversation

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June 17, 2020

UK: over 1,000 prison leavers left homeless amid pandemic, MoJ figures show

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More than 1,000 prisoners were released into homelessness at the height of the coronavirus pandemic in England and Wales, figures show, prompting the government to increase funding for accommodation for prison leavers. Figures released to the Labour MP Lyn Brown show 840 men, 89 women and 85 young adults…

Source — The Guardian

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June 17, 2020

France: "J’étais directrice pénitentiaire d’insertion et de probation, j’ai démissionné. Voilà pourquoi"

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June 17, 2020

France: le logement, casse-tête des aménagements de peines de prison

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June 17, 2020

France: terrorisme, la majorité veut développer la justice préventive

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June 17, 2020

Ukraine: COVID-19 has reached prisons

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On 11 March, the Ukrainian government announced a nationwide quarantine, and at the same time its Ministry of Justice changed the rules governing the work of pre-trial detention centres and prison colonies. Meetings with families were banned (video links were permitted) and both staff and inmates had…

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June 11, 2020

France: première évaluation des impacts de la crise covid sur la justice et la prison

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June 11, 2020

France: un rapport critique la gestion des détenus radicalisés

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June 11, 2020

France: Adeline Hazan, "en prison, les droits fondamentaux sont presque considérés comme un luxe"

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June 9, 2020

Touch — 9/12

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Each month, the photographer Bertrand Gaudillère creates an image or chooses one from his archives. Prison Insider sends it to a dozen participants, prisoners around the world.They are in Argentina, in the United States of America, in France, in Switzerland, in Guatemala, in Ukraine, in Colombia, in… Read more

June 3, 2020

Russia: le mystère de la faible propagation du coronavirus dans les prisons

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