Oceania
Global Prison Trends 2020
Report
Africa
Asia
Europe
Middle East
Oceania
Material conditions
Overcrowding
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.
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Coronavirus
Minors
Oceania
Material conditions
Social ties
Australia
Aboriginal people in prisons are going without soap, and children in out-of-home care are being refused contact with their families under “punitive” restrictions enforced due to Covid-19, a report released on Wednesday has said.
Aboriginal people are disproportionately affected by Covid-19 policy responses…
Source — The Guardian
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Oceania
Australia
The prison death of proud Indigenous man Jonathon Hogan is a bleak reminder of an ongoing and shameful Australian inequality, his heartbroken family says.
Mr Hogan died by suicide in February 2018 while incarcerated at the Junee prison in southern NSW.
He was 23 and had a history of drug abuse and mental…
Source — SBS News
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Unclear fates behind bars
Interview
Africa
Pre-trial detention
Asia
Europe
Middle East
Oceania
“Since 2000, the overall number of pre-trial detainees has increased by 30%”. They are now up to three million people to be held awaiting trial around the world. What is the purpose of pre-trial detention? How it is used around the world?
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Oceania
Violence
Fiji
Four former prison officers from Fiji are seeking asylum in Australia claiming the prime minister’s brother-in-law, who is the commissioner of the corrections service, routinely ordered the beating and mistreatment of prisoners and at one point ordered them to assault a fellow staff member.
Detailed…
Source — The Guardian
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Coronavirus: distintos países del mundo descongestionan las cárceles
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Africa
Coronavirus
North America
Europe
Middle East
Justice
Oceania
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Coronavirus
Oceania
Health
New Zealand
Women at an Auckland prison have been routinely confined to their cells for periods of up to 29 hours at a stretch - well outside the law, which says they should get at least one hour out of their cells a day.
RNZ took evidence of the lockdown hours including a recently released prisoner’s diary, to…
Source — Newshub
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Coronavirus
North America
Central America and the Caribbean
South America
Asia
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Health
Prison Insider is partnering with Justice Project Pakistan on its collaborative map to report the number of confirmed cases and deaths among prisoners worldwide.
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Death penalty 2019: les chiffres les plus bas de la décennie
News
Africa
Asia
Europe
Middle East
Oceania
Death penalty
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Oceania
Australia
A number of people who have committed acts of terrorism were radicalised in prison. Examples include Richard Reid (the 2001 ‘shoe-bomber’), some individuals involved in the 2004 Madrid bombing, and the attackers who committed the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris in 2015. Studies of European and US jihadists…
Source — The Australian Strategic Policy Institute
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Australia: 'urgent action' needed over high proportion of Indigenous women in prison, report says
News
Women
Oceania
Australia
The number of Indigenous women in custody has been called “one of the most challenging human rights issues facing Australia”.
Research out today has shed new light on Indigenous women in the criminal justice system in New South Wales.
It found the number of women in NSW jails between March 2013 and June…
Source — ABC News
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Women
Oceania
Violence
Australia
Violence against women is rarely out of the news in Australia. We are now ten years into the National Action Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women (2010-2022), but there is still a long way to go.
Our research shows this is particularly true for women who have been to prison. The considerable challenges…
Source — The conversation
Read more Covid-19: l’ONU s’inquiète des risques de contamination dans les prisons et réclame des mesures d’urgence
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Africa
Coronavirus
North America
Central America and the Caribbean
South America
Asia
Europe
Oceania
Health
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Coronavirus
Oceania
Health
Material conditions
Protest
The Covid-19 does not stop at prison gates. Prisoners often live in overcrowded cells and unsanitary contexts, sharing cells.
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? — Update 14/09/20
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Oceania
Overcrowding
Australia
A former inmate describes conditions inside the prison system as a “ticking time bomb”, with staff and prisoners under increasing stress
Source — ABC News
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Women
Oceania
Australia
December 25th can be a chaotic mix of cheer and stress, but above all, it is a time of year dedicated to family. While most celebrate with their loved ones, for those in prison, Christmas is a complicated matter.
“It has a bit more of an impact on the women,” said Superintendent Julie Steineuer from…
Source — ABC
Read more Australia: atados y amordazados, la realidad de los menores en las cárceles
News
Oceania
Australia
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Women
Oceania
Health
New Zealand
Prisoners have been isolated and babies put into quarantine at Auckland Region Women’s Corrections Facility over fears of a measles outbreak.
On Tuesday night, Corrections informed Newshub there were concerns three female prisoners had been exposed to measles. They will remain isolated until their immunity…
Source — Newshub
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Oceania
Australia
NSW prison inmates who had been previously cured of Hepatitis C were being reinfected up to three times, the ice inquiry has heard.
Source — The Sydney Morning Herald
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