Report
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
Europe
Health
Material conditions
Social ties
Hungary
The Hungarian penitentiary institutions have become even more closed and less transparent since the COVID-19 outbreak. On 5 April 2020, a Government Decree introduced tighter measures for prisons. The Hungarian Helsinki Committee updates us on the situation.
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Coronavirus
Europe
Health
Italy
The last weeks have been devastating for prisoners in Italy. The overcrowded Italian prison system found itself unprepared for the sanitary situation caused by the Coronavirus outbreak. Antigone is an Italian human rights NGO focusing on the penal and penitentiary systems. They monitored the situation…
Source — Antigone
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DRC: Manque d'accès aux soins
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Africa
Health
Material conditions
Suicide
Overcrowding
Congo - Kinshasa
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Human rights in the Argentine criminal system
Analysis
Report
South America
Access to legal rights
Argentina
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LGBTI people deprived of their freedom: ring the warning bell
Analysis
Report
DRC: insufficient health care at Makala Prison
Analysis
Report
Africa
Health
Overcrowding
Congo - Kinshasa
“We are sick, but since there is no doctor to see us, we have no access to any medicine.”
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Death penalty: global trends
Analysis
Report
Africa
Justice
Torture
Violence
Togo
The opposition parties and the Togolese civil society have been mobilised since the month of August in 2017 to denounce the corruption, social injustice, and human rights violations committed by those in positions of authority.
After a year of observation, the Associations Against Impunity Collective…
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Nepal: strong resemblance to the past
Analysis
Report
Despite the ratification of six key international human rights treaties by Nepal, AF lawyers have witnessed numerous cases of ill-treatments and tortures in police detention centers, where those behaviors have been proven to be more likely to happen.
To AF, the implementation of these legal instruments,…
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Chile: overcrowded cells with no water and ill treatment
Analysis
Report
South America
Health
Overcrowding
Chile
Many prisons do not have running access to drinking water 24h/day, a dramatic situation in Chili.
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Venezuela : malnutrition and tuberculosis
Analysis
Report
South America
Health
Overcrowding, food shortage, presence of weapons and drugs, and tuberculosis: the Venezuelan Prisons Observatory (commonly known by its Spanish acronym OVP) published its 2017 Annual Report, which documented the collapse of the penitentiary system throughout the country.
The Venezuelan prison system…
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Global prison trends 2018
Analysis
Report
North America
Central America and the Caribbean
Pre-trial detention
South America
Women
Asia
Europe
Middle East
Long-term prisoners
Justice
Overcrowding
Penal Reform International and the Thailand Institute of Justice co-published their 2018 annual report aiming to provide a global account on the state of prisons and the use of imprisonment throughout the world.
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Ukraine: the roof is leaking
Analysis
Report
A monitoring team led by the representative of the Commissioner on the implementation of the national preventive mechanism, Vyacheslav Petlyovaniy, together with director of “Ukraine without torture” Aleksand Hatiyatullin, visited the Bucha Penitentiary Institution (N° 85) on 3 April 2018.
Colony N°85,…
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Italy: challenges ahead
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Pre-trial detention
Foreign prisoners
Europe
Health
Overcrowding
Activities
Italy
– Published 25 May 2018.
Antigone has been advocating for a long time to urge the Government to reform the penitentiary system.
A law was supposed to bring significant changes, such as:
Equalization of psychiatric diseases to physical diseases with the aim of providing an adequate medical and juridical…
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Deplorable prison conditions in Ukraine
Analysis
Report
On February 7, 2018, NGO Ukraine Without Torture made a monitoring visit to the Ladyzhin Correctional Colony (No. 39), located in the Vinnytsia region (west border). They were accompanied by members of the Department for the implementation of the national preventive mechanism and representatives of the…
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Improving Italian prisons
Analysis
Report
Monitoring prisons, studies on discrimination against foreigners, proposals on justice to the legislative candidates, reform for the penitentiary code and report on Italy’s juvenile detention facilities. Overview of the different spheres of action and militant activities of the italian association, Antigone.
Antigone…
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In Russia, the prisoners are dragged around
Analysis
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Asia
Europe
Overcrowding
Torture
Violence
Russia
— Published 13 December 2017.
“The prisoner becomes a package that is sent from a point A to a point B along some cunning logistical route” – Ivan Pavlov, human rights lawyer
A 3.5 square meter train wagon shared by 20 prisoners for journeys going up to a month: welcome to the reality of prisoners who…
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Alarming prison conditions of political prisoners in Morocco
Analysis
Report
Africa
Health
Violence
Morocco
A short report sheds light on alarming prison conditions of political prisoners in Morocco.
Nineteen prisoners were separated and sent in 7 different prisons thoughout Morocco.
Since their transfer almost all prisoners entered a hunger strike in protest against the conditions they are currently held,…
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"Surviving hell" in Eastern Ukraine
Analysis
Report
Europe
Justice
Torture
Violence
Ukraine
Prison Insider’s correspondents in Ukraine shared several materials describing the conditions of detention in the Donbas region, in the East of the country. It is composed of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. Due to the crisis which started in 2014, Ukraine is divided between the so-called pro Europeans…
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Nepal: the challenges of achieving justice
Analysis
Report
Asia
Justice
Torture
Nepal
For the first time in more than ten years, our correspondent in Nepal, Advocacy Forum (AF), is not in a position to conduct an assessment of whether the overall situation in regard of torture in police custody, during the last year, has improved or deteriorated.
This is due to a lack of cooperation from…
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Political police torture in Caracas (Venezuela)
Analysis
Report
South America
Torture
Violence
Venezuela
Electric shocks, beatings, waterboarding, asphyxiation with chemicals… The Venezuelan government, engulfed in an endless political crisis, reacts to protest movements with torture and arbitrary detentions. The Venezuelan NGO “A Window to Freedom” denounces these practices in its latest report (in Spanish).
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