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South Africa: large number of juveniles in SA prison system a cause for concern

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The Judicial Inspectorate Correctional Services (Jics) issued statistics stating that as of May 31, there were 55 children in remand detention, 3 105 juveniles awaiting trial, 42 children sentenced and 1 503 juveniles sentenced. Jics spokesperson Emerantia Cupido said between 2019 and 2020 there were…

Source — IOL

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Malta: Faculty for Social Wellbeing dean calls for end to solitary confinement in Malta’s prison

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The Office of the Dean of the Faculty for Social Wellbeing at the University of Malta has issued a position paper calling for the end to solitary confinement in the country. “The practice of Solitary Confinement has been shown, through multiple empirical research publications, to be detrimental to prisoners’…

Source — Maltatoday

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Malta: the Corradino correctional facility is “diabolical” and the prison system should be completely revised

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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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Ireland: prison university project to "bring third-level to those furthest away from it"

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The Mountjoy and Maynooth University (MJMU) project aims to become a template across the prison service to “disrupt the inevitability” of a life in and out of the prison system for many offenders. Dr Rose Ryan, director of the access programme in MU, said while the university was already involved in…

Source — Irish Times

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Singapore: recidivism rate at all-time low, more inmates serving part of jail term in community

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According to the latest annual statistics released by SPS, the overall recidivism rate for the 2018 release cohort was 22.1 per cent, down from 24 per cent in 2017 and 23.7 per cent in 2016. This is the lowest it has been since the 1990 release cohort, SPS said. Before this, the lowest rate was 23.6…

Source — Channel news Asia

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France : “je me dois de vous dire que la dite réinsertion est un combat de tous les jours”

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United Kingdom: investing in yet more prison places is not the way to cut crime

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With the dismaying announcement that the government plans to fund 18,000 more prison places by 2026, we are forced to ask, once again, why crime prevention fails to get the same emphasis as punishment. Last Wednesday, the chancellor announced more than £4bn in capital funding – spread over four years…

Source — The Guardian

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United States: think private prison companies are going away under Biden? They have other plans

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For the second time in four years, fears that a Democrat would be elected president sent private prison stocks plummeting earlier this month. To the casual observer, the prospect of President-elect Joe Biden—who promised to “stop corporations from profiteering from incarceration”—presented an existential…

Source — The Marshall project

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United States: no escape, the trauma of witnessing violence in prison

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Early this year — before COVID-19 began to tear through U.S. prisons — five people were killed in Mississippi state prisons over the course of one week. A civil rights lawyer reported in February that he was receiving 30 to 60 letters each week describing pervasive “beatings, stabbings, denial of medical…

Source — Prison policy

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France : la fin annoncée des CRP pour les auteurs de violences contre les policiers

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Canada: why Covid-19 shows it’s time to consider prison abolition

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There are five federal prisons for women in Canada, none of which are in Newfoundland. For women from the province facing a federal sentence, this usually means they will serve their time in the Nova Institution for Women (Nova) in Truro, Nova Scotia. Being a province away from their communities means… Read more
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United States: 2,258 N.J. prisoners will be released in a single day

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In a sweeping acknowledgment of the risks of the coronavirus in cramped prisons, New Jersey will release more than 2,000 inmates on Wednesday as part of one of the largest-ever single-day reductions of any state’s prison population. More than 1,000 additional prisoners will be released in the coming…

Source — The New York Times

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Argentina: cárceles solidarias, presas hicieron y donaron 180 pelucas para pacientes oncológicos

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France : la prison, quel rôle ?

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France : "ils sont surveillés de près"

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Belgique: près de deux tiers des détenus vont à fond de peine

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Europe Justice Rehabilitation Belgium

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France: dans les prisons, le défi de la prise en charge des détenus radicalisés

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Europe Justice Rehabilitation Religion France

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France : une autre prison est possible

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Europe Alternatives Rehabilitation France

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France: la prison, un milieu difficile pour le travail social

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United States: prison labor is on the frontlines of the covid-19 pandemic

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As record-shattering wildfires rage throughout California, the state’s incarcerated population is doing the backbreaking work at the front lines. They plow fire lines and battle blazes, for $1 an hour, plus reduced prison time—a program that saves the state tens of millions of dollars annually. While…

Source — The Appeal

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United Kingdom: lockdown conditions leave prisoners at risk of serving longer sentences

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Lockdown conditions in prisons have effectively ended opportunities for prisoners to take part in rehabilitation activities and progress in their sentences. For the nearly 11,000 prisoners serving indeterminate sentences (9,000 unreleased; 2,000 recalled), this could lead to them spending significantly…

Source — Prison reform trust

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