Facilities
Europe
Justice
Facilities
Netherlands
Judges there will be able to handle the sessions of criminal cases, reducing the need to transfer detainees to courthouses elsewhere in the Netherlands. The small courtroom within the walls of the penitentiary will cost 15 million euros and is already under construction, wrote Legal Protection Mini…
Source — NL Times
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France: “Non-places"
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Focus
Asia
Facilities
North Korea
North Korea has recently been working to reorganize the Yodok concentration camp for political prisoners (also known as Camp 15) and rebuild and repair its facilities with the goal of housing more inmates there, Daily NK has learned.
“North Korea recently eliminated a zone at Camp 15 and repaired a…
Source — Daily NK
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A prison in the City
Insights
The Move
Insights
From City to City
Opinion
Facilities
Overcrowding
Social ties
Canada
Walls that move: with every transfer, prisoners in Quebec travel hundreds of kilometres crammed into vans.
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Justice
Facilities
Ecuador
The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) will visit Ecuador from 25 September to 1 October 2022 in light of recent prison riots and violence.Rights experts from the SPT were alarmed by the ongoing violence within Ecuador’s prison system, which has led to the death of hundreds of inmates i…
Source — United Nations
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Central America and the Caribbean
Facilities
Overcrowding
El Salvador
The so-called Terrorism Confinement Center will be ready within 60 days, Bukele said in a post on Twitter, accompanied by a video of construction work at the site.
Source — BNN Bloomberg
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Oceania
Material conditions
Facilities
New Zealand
Prison labour is being used to build the new parts of Waikeria Prison, the site of a riot 18 months ago.
Source — RNZ
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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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Colombia: grave incendio en la cárcel de Tuluá deja 51 muertos y al menos 30 heridos
News
South America
Facilities
Protest
Colombia
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France: everyday madness
Testimonial
"These two photos were my first introduction to prison life"
Insights
Focus
Europe
Material conditions
Facilities
France
“I had barely taken a step inside when a rat jumped out of the toilet bowl and landed on my feet…”
Thierry Chantegret is a photographer. He joined, in 2021, the team of the Controller-General for Places of Deprivation of Liberty (CGLPL). He comments, for Prison Insider, two of his photos.
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Europe
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Facilities
Overcrowding
France
Thierry Chantegret is a photographer with the French National Preventive Mechanism team. He spoke with us about the role of photography, his approach, and how he gets down to the facts.
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Ukraine: “prisons are left on their own”
Interview
Europe
Material conditions
Facilities
Violence
Social ties
Ukraine
Information about prison is not easily accessible, even less during the war. Prison Insider is seeking to update its information about Ukrainian prisons.
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Europe
Justice
Material conditions
Facilities
Poland
A delegation of the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) carried out a periodic visit to Poland from 21 March to 1 April 2022. It was the Committee’s seventh periodic visit to this country.
Source — CPT
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Oceania
Facilities
New Zealand
“Once there is a take-over, they will be subjected to the pool of challenges we face at the Department of Correctional Services,” acting national commissioner Makgothi Thobakgale said. Thobakgale made the statement when briefing the portfolio committee on their readiness to take over the Mangaung a…
Source — IOL
Read more España : Instituciones Penitenciarias quiere trasladar 200 presos de la península a Ceuta
News
Europe
Facilities
Spain
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“Hearing the sounds of the city”
Interview
Facilities
Alternatives
Rehabilitation
Work
France
Detention villages, open prisons, small prisons: what is there to say? We asked geographer Olivier Milhaud three questions. For him, large prisons built outside of cities are “a disaster”.
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Burundi : l’incendie d’une prison fait 38 morts et 69 blessés parmi les détenus
News
Africa
Facilities
Overcrowding
Burundi
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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 educ…
Source — Positive news
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Park closed
Analysis
Facilities
Alternatives
France
“Quiet, we’re closed “ Marc Uhry thinks about the shrinking of freedom. Free rein on city, prison and confinement.
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Material conditions
Facilities
Alternatives
Work
France
Does having a prison in a region represent a money-making venture? Does it generate jobs? Does it increase the total amount of funds granted to a municipality? The point of view of Isabelle Leroux.
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