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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 14/09/20 Read more

September 17, 2020

France : suicides en prison

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September 15, 2020

Biélorussie : les protestataires libérés racontent les tortures en prison

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September 15, 2020

France: Eric Dupond-Moretti annonce un budget 2021 "exceptionnel" pour la justice

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September 14, 2020

España: el gobierno vasco urge a "adaptar la política penitenciaria a la realidad actual"

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September 14, 2020

United Kingdom: teenage killers could spend rest of their lives in prison after "life means life" shake-up

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The government is planning to lower the age at which murderers can be jailed for life without parole from 21 to 18.

Source — Sky news

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September 14, 2020

France : à quand un nouveau contrôleur général des lieux de privation de liberté ?

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July 30, 2020

France: punaises de lit, moisissures, surpopulation, le calvaire à la prison de Perpignan

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July 30, 2020

European Prison Rules: “progressing the conversation”

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All prison conditions across Europe are not equivalent. However, the European Prison Rules formulate guidelines to ensure the protection of prisoners’ rights. Are these rules respected? What does their recent revision imply? Read more

July 29, 2020

Spain: la realidad de las cárceles en la pandemia, cuando los datos esconden la verdad

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July 29, 2020

France : Lutte contre le terrorisme, les bons et mauvais points de la Cour des comptes pour la justice

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July 29, 2020

Russia: Incendie dans une prison pour femmes de Moscou, 850 évacuations

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July 29, 2020

UK: Children in detention may face Covid-19 restrictions until 2022, ‘It’s just too long’

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Rules allowing up to 22 hours of solitary confinement for young offenders could continue, in move lawyers say is ‘very concerning’

Source — The Guardian

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July 29, 2020

UK: more than 140 freed inmates housed in hotels and B&Bs in lockdown

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MoJ says hotels used as last resort to prevent homelessness and reduce coronavirus risk.

Source — The Guardian

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July 29, 2020

France: Tensions à la prison de Borgo en Corse

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July 27, 2020

France: Plus d’un tiers des 1400 djihadistes en prison en Europe sont détenus sur le territoire

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July 23, 2020

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Delphine Dauphy and Marc Loyon ran photography workshops in prisons for six months. This involved visiting both Vezin-le-Coquet prison and Rennes women’s prison seven times. Every prisoner was able to take part in creating a body of images documenting their daily life. Read more

July 22, 2020

Netherlands: A bigger market for electronic ankle monitors

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Corrections centers are stocking up on electronic monitors as they release prisoners due to Covid-19.

Source — Bloomberg

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July 15, 2020

France: single-occupancy cells are possible

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The National Union of Prison Directors sent an open letter to the President of the Republic on 20 April 2020 stating that it is “no longer possible to claim that single-occupancy cells are unachievable”. Read more

July 15, 2020

Turkey: les écrits de prison, un genre littéraire à part entière

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July 15, 2020

Europe: CPT urges intensifying temporary measures introduced to prevent COVID-19

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the CPT says that further steps are needed to reduce the use of remand detention

Source — Conseil de l'Europe

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July 8, 2020

UK: lockdown report reveals HMP Maidstone inmates confined to cell for 23 hours a day with higher number of self-harm incidents

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An inspection of a Kent prison during lockdown has revealed inmates have been confined to their cells for 23 hours a day and had no face-to-face contact with the outside world for at least 12 weeks. The report has also highlighted a “self-inflicted death” at HMP Maidstone since the restrictions came…

Source — KentOnline

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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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