Facilities
Cuba: “If there’s one thing that’s rampant in Cuban prisons, it’s hunger"
Testimonial
Crises
Discipline
Health
Material conditions
Facilities
Violence
Cuba
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Prison Insider in 2025
Activity report
Crises
Material conditions
Facilities
Overcrowding
Social ties
Staying true to its mission, Prison Insider continues to shed light on prison conditions across the globe, year after year. Take a look at the activities carried out in 2025 by leafing through our activity report.
Scotland: “A state of permanent hyperawareness”
Testimonial
Europe
Health
Mental health
Material conditions
Facilities
Social ties
Rehabilitation
United Kingdom
John has been incarcerated for nearly twenty years since the age of 16. Now a husband, a father, and a PhD researcher, he shares his story with us — from his time behind bars to how prison still impacts him today. Interview.
America
Facilities
Overcrowding
Alternatives
Rehabilitation
Trinidad & Tobago
As the Government intensifies its fight against crime through State of Emergency measures, policing strategies and legislative reform, one of the country’s most critical crime-generating environments—the prison system—continues to operate under severe strain.
Africa
Material conditions
Facilities
Overcrowding
Alternatives
Rehabilitation
Mozambique
Mozambique’s Attorney-General, Americo Letela, has revealed that the country’s prisons now hold more than twice the number of incarcerated people they were designed for.
Pre-trial detention
Minors
Material conditions
Facilities
Haiti
The Center for the Re-education of Minors in Conflict with the Law (CERMICOL), has been transformed into a tripartite detention center where minors, women, and men, displaced from prisons destroyed by gang violence and increased insecurity, are now housed together.
Crises
Asia
Justice
Health
Facilities
Iran
Tehran’s Evin prison was struck by Israel last June, leading to a UN investigation.
Europe
Material conditions
Facilities
Overcrowding
Violence
Finland
Finnish prisons suffer from overcrowding, which has spurred more violence behind bars. This year, new cell blocks are being built at prisons in Helsinki and Kylmäkoski to accommodate 180 incarcerated people.
America
Crises
Women
Justice
Mental health
Facilities
Suicide
Social ties
Mexico
Designed as a maximum security facility, Cefereso No. 16 is Mexico’s only federal women’s prison, and concern over its living conditions is rising. Interview with Algaraza.
America
Long-term prisoners
Justice
Facilities
Death penalty
United States
A US federal judge temporarily halted a plan by President Donald Trump’s administration to move 20 former federal death row incarcerated people to the country’s most restrictive correctional facility.