Facilities
Africa: informal governance and healthcare access in prison
Analysis
Opinion
Africa
Discipline
Health
Mental health
Material conditions
Facilities
Overcrowding
ICPR and Prison Insider asked several experts worldwide to share their insights in the framework of the project ‘Understanding and reducing the use of imprisonment in 10 countries’. Carole Berrih, a lawyer specialising in public law, focuses on the role of prisoners in the maintenance of order in Nigerian…
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Niger: the cost of living
Testimonial
Africa
Pre-trial detention
Health
Material conditions
Facilities
Overcrowding
Violence
Niger
Two prisoners attest to their conditions in overpopulated prisons. A way to survive: pay, every month, for access to better prison conditions.
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Europe
Material conditions
Facilities
Overcrowding
Rehabilitation
Malta
The Dean questioned the mechanisms that judges can utilise when handing down sentences to those convicted. “We need to ask: ‘Why are there more people in jail?’ Is it because we are being more efficient in the way we are investigating, or are there other difficulties, such as judges not having other…
Source — Independent
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Venezuela: tragedia de Policarabobo, tres años de retardo procesal, frustración, dolor y sed de justicia
News
South America
Access to legal rights
Material conditions
Facilities
Protest
Venezuela
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Belgium: what is Haren ?
Interview
Europe
Facilities
Overcrowding
Belgium
One billion euros have been invested in the construction of Haren, a massive prison complex located on the outskirts of Brussels.
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Africa
Material conditions
Facilities
Torture
Violence
South Africa
Violence has deep roots in South Africa, going back to colonial conquest and the apartheid state, which ruled by the gun and the whip. Its citizens continue to live in fear of violent crime at home and on the streets. Which is why the perpetrators of crime in the country — and particularly those who…
Source — Global Investigative Journalism Network
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Culture
Middle East
Facilities
Syria
The prison is a fundamental political institution, the function of which is to de-politicize the population; indeed to politicide them. The concept of politicide was introduced in political science in the 1980s to conceptualize murdering people en masse for their political affiliations, rather than for…
Source — AlJumhuriya
Read more Argentina: en cumplimiento de un fallo de la CorteIDH, el SPF aprueba un nuevo protocolo de traslados de personas privadas de libertad
News
South America
Access to legal rights
Justice
Facilities
Social ties
Argentina
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Asia
Discipline
Facilities
North Korea
The North Korean authorities have reportedly ordered the expansion of political prison camps in the country. A source told Daily NK that North Korea, having declared war on the so-called “anti-socialist and non-socialist phenomenon” during the recent Eighth Party Congress, intends to overhaul its incarceration…
Source — Daily NK
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Mexico: AMLO busca cancelar contratos de cárceles privadas
News
Central America and the Caribbean
Facilities
Mexico
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Asia
Facilities
Nepal
The construction of buildings for the Central Jail in Nuwakot is picking pace, says the Ministry of Home Affairs. According to the MoHA annual report of fiscal 2019- 20, approximately 65 per cent work on construction of prison infrastructure has been completed. It informed that the construction work…
Source — The Himalayan Times
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Central America and the Caribbean
Facilities
Mexico
The private prison contracts were much too expensive and represented the worst of privatization, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said at a regular government news conference.
“We need to talk to the providers of these services so that an agreement is reached because we consider (the contracts)…
Source — Reuters
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France: indiscriminate surveillance
Interview
Pre-trial detention
Europe
Facilities
France
There are 1,500 individuals who are identified as “radicalised” prisoners. How are they evaluated? By whom? What is their pre-trial detention like?
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Coronavirus
Europe
Material conditions
Facilities
Social ties
United Kingdom
The rollout of secure video calls in prisons should be speeded up to ease the distress of families and their loved ones unable to see each other since the cancellation of social visits, a new briefing by the Prison Reform Trust (PRT) suggests.
Based on 278 contributions from families and prisoners in…
Source — Prison Reform Trust
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North America
Facilities
United States
A California assemblymember said nearly $200 million in operating costs will be saved after the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s (CDCR) announcement on Friday of the closure of a state prison in Tracy.
The Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy was chosen for closure based on…
Source — CBS Sacramento
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North America
Europe
Material conditions
Facilities
Alternatives
“The incarceration of human beings for profit is immoral.”
These are the words that Richard Burgon, the spokesperson for the Labour Party in the United Kingdom, used to describe the fundamental problem with private prisons.
While many regard criminal justice as a function of the state alone, private…
Source — HIR
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Coronavirus
Asia
Facilities
Thailand
Thailand plans to turn about half its prisons into tourist attractions to boost visitor numbers as the Southeast Asian nation struggles to recover from an economic slump caused by the coronavirus outbreak.
Source — Jakarta Post
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Russia: Incendie dans une prison pour femmes de Moscou, 850 évacuations
News
Europe
Discipline
Facilities
Russia
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France: Plus d’un tiers des 1400 djihadistes en prison en Europe sont détenus sur le territoire
News
Europe
Facilities
Violence
France
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Mexico: Sobrepoblación en cárceles aviva contagios de covid, critica Cruz Roja
News
Coronavirus
Central America and the Caribbean
Health
Facilities
Overcrowding
Mexico
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POINT de vues
Portfolio
Insights
Women
Europe
Material conditions
Facilities
France
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.
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Argentina: cómo es el modelo de cárceles sin rejas que proponen aplicar en Santa Fe
News
South America
Facilities
Overcrowding
Alternatives
Rehabilitation
Argentina
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Turkey: a life in isolation
Interview
Europe
LGBTI
Middle East
Access to legal rights
Material conditions
Facilities
Turkey
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) prisoners represent a minority. Their protection is not ensured at all levels and their specific needs are neglected. Hilal Basak Demirbas works at the Society in the Penal System association. She regularly exchanges letters with LGBTI prisoners…
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France: a prison without bars?
Interview
Europe
Long-term prisoners
Facilities
Work
France
Casabianda is currently the only prison without bars on French soil. Guillaume Massart filmed a documentary La liberté (In the Open).
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