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Coronavirus: Prison Fever / 2021
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The virus has not stopped at prison gates. 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? Here is an overview. — Update 29/07/2021
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Argentina: ratas, comida podrida y heridos de “guerra”: las imágenes del abandono en las cárceles de la provincia de Buenos Aires
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Argentina
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Malta
Speaking in a press conference earlier today, Abela said that he also backed the magisterial inquiry into the incident – and would wait for its conclusion before taking a position on the fatal incident.
A magisterial inquiry was opened soon after the inmate’s suicide attempt on 16th June. She had last…
Source — Lovinmalta
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Liberia: SHED with funding from european union donates essential drugs to four prison facilities
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Liberia
The drugs valued over Four Thousand United States Dollars (US$ 4,000) was donated Tuesday at SHED’s office in Paynesville and will be used in treating malaria, skin diseases, infection, STIs, test kit for hepatitis, sanitary pads for female inmates, nose masks for use by inmates and other common diseases…
Source — AllAfrica
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Syrie : les prisonniers du régime, un business juteux pour les escrocs, face à des familles désespérées
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Syria
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Australia: Ageing prisoners
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Australia
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’. Natasha Ginnivan discusses the ageing prison population in Australia.
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New Zealand
Corrections cut its AOD (Alcohol and Other Drug) Brief Support Programme and its AOD Intermediate Treatment Programme in 2018, which has seen a massive drop in the number of prisoners receiving treatment. Corrections continue to offer drug treatment programmes ranging from three to 12 months long, delivered…
Source — RNZ
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Africa: informal governance and healthcare access in prison
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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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Africa: health beyond epidemics
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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’. Frédéric Le Marcis focuses on epidemic responses in prison environment in different African countries.
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Madagascar : The right to health must not be "forgotten behind bars"
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Madagascar
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’. Tamara Léger draws on her previous research experience to highlight the severe impact of prison overcrowding on health…
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China
Lü’s health has deteriorated while in prison, according to a report by the Chinese human rights news website Minsheng Guancha (Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch) and the journalist’s wife, Wang Xue’e, who told CPJ in a phone interview that, during a prison visit on May 22, he looked fragile and had lost…
Source — IFEX
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United States: there’s an aging crisis in New York’s prisons and we need to solve it
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United States
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’. Rodney Holcombe, New York State Director for Criminal Justice Reform, addresses the New York prison system and the its…
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Life imprisonment: a sentence in dire need of reform
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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’. In this piece, Olivia Rope, Executive Director of Penal Reform International (PRI), discusses life sentences, a key priority…
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The Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research (ICPR) partnered with Prison Insider to share the results of one of its most extensive research projects. We invite you to learn about it below.
The world has seen unprecedented growth in prison populations in recent decades and today well over…
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España: ¿Por qué las mujeres son menos del 8% de la población reclusa en España? Así son las cárceles femeninas en nuestro país
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Spain
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Géorgie : tuberculose, les prisons, viviers pour les souches multirésistantes
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Georgia
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China
More than 100,000 Hongkongers have signed a petition urging prison authorities to roll out special measures such as the provision of cold water for inmates, as the city swelters under exceptionally hot weather.
The “very hot weather” alert issued by the Observatory – which warns the public of heatstroke…
Source — South China Morning Post
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Thailand
In less than a week, Thailand’s Department of Corrections has reported over 11,000 new COVID cases in 13 of the country’s prisons. When the daily number of new COVID-19 cases reached a record high for the entire country on Monday, May 17, 71 percent of the 9,635 new infections reported were in prisons.…
Source — The Diplomat
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Cambodia
The UN resident coordinator in Cambodia, Pauline Tamesis, told The Post on May 19 that the UN has engaged with prison authorities and humanitarian partners to assess the situation. They will provide support for the affected inmates and preparedness to prevent and contain the disease in the prison.
“In…
Source — Phnom Penh Post
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Niger: the cost of living
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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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Guinée : après sept mois de détention arbitraire, le militant Oumar Sylla doit être libéré
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Guinea
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Russia
The protest in the prison in western Russia involved three people from the Russian republic of Daghestan and an Azerbaijani native.
Their relatives told Caucasian Knot that inmates were confined to punishment cells without justification and even threatened with torture for expressing dissatisfaction…
Source — OC media
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Bahrain
Activists said prisoners protesting conditions in a Bahraini jail were beaten in a security operation last weekend that authorities had described as a response to disobedience following repeated warnings.
Tensions had been rising in the country’s main Jau prison since an outbreak of COVID-19 last month,…
Source — US News
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Ghana
To enable the centre operate effectively some members of Parliament, especially from the Volta Region, have presented medical equipment worth GH¢65,780 to the prison.
The medical equipment, including beds, thermometers, stretchers, stethoscopes, sterilisers and computers were purchased from donations…
Source — Ghanaweb
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