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Côte d'Ivoire: a game-changing assist
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Africa
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Rehabilitation
Côte d’Ivoire
Does sport improve living conditions and help prisoners reintegrate into society? That is the hope of the organisation La Balle aux Prisonniers (LaBAP). Its founders are convinced that sport can be a vehicle for social inclusion, integration and equal opportunity. Interview.
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Europe
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Moldova
Alexander Godin moves through a number of locked doors escorted by a guard to prison 16’s pharmacy. This is part of his daily routine. He comes to get his medicine – a syrup-like dose of methadone. Since 2000, a few prisons in Moldova offered such harm reduction services. Now all do.
Any new prison…
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Belgium: "a key voice"
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Europe
Justice
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Overcrowding
Belgium
Marc Nève is a lawyer and President of the Central Prison Monitoring Council in Belgium. He sat down with us to discuss the work of the Council, as well as the main issues facing the Belgian prison system today. Interview.
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Middle East
Justice
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Overcrowding
Pakistan
A prominent rights group has raised alarm over Pakistan’s overcrowded prisons and called for reforms to the country’s criminal justice system. In a report released on Wednesday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Pakistan’s more than 100 jails had at least 88,000 inmates, against the officially approved…
Source — Al Jazeera
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Health
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Turkey
Ahmet Göksu, who is jailed in Turkey’s central province of Aksaray, has told his family that inmates suffering from COVID-19 cannot access proper healthcare and are not taken to the hospital, the Mezopotamya news agency reported.
According to Göksu, there are critically ill prisoners among those wh…
Source — Stockholm Center for Freedom
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Europe
Health
Ireland
Senator Mary Seery Kearney spoke with prison officials in recent days after receiving a number of queries from members of the public. She said a scheme, which will be part of the Assisted Reproduction Bill, will allow prisoners to take part in fertility treatment and the service will be available t…
Source — The Irish Examiner
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Germany: neither incarcerated nor free
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Problems of substance
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North America
Europe
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Mental health
Drugs
Material conditions
Many people are living with addiction in prison. They face great difficulties. Drugs are an integral part of the overcrowded and unsanitary prison systems, which increases the risks inherent in drug use. How is drug addiction experienced behind bars?
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Belgium: a tough journey
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Europe
Health
Mental health
Drugs
Belgium
Prisons often act as a conduit for worsening drug use, yet prisoners are confronted with numerous barriers when trying to access help.Ambulatoire Forest discussed its psychosocial support programme specifically designed for offenders struggling with substance use.
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Switzerland: detect, treat and support
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France: beyond the stigma
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Europe
Discipline
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Mental health
Drugs
France
They are banned, but present nonetheless; denying the presence of illicit substances inside prison walls is dangerous from a medical and health point of view. Doctors of the World explained its approach.
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France: drugs in prison, an open secret
Interview
USA: the Holmesburg prison experiments
Interview
Middle East
Health
Turkey
According to the İHD report, 39 of 76 inmates who died in prison in 2022 were critically ill.
Speaking to DW, İHD Chairman Öztürk Türkdoğan said the number of ailing prisoners and the death toll could be much higher than the report indicated. Türkdoğan described the situation as a “structural probl…
Source — Stockholm Center for Freedom
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Asia
Health
Bangladesh
Since the beginning of 2022, the ICRC’s Health Care in Detention team in Bangladesh has been training health staff, prison guards and detainees to raise awareness about scabies at the central prisons in Keraniganj, Chattogram, Cox’s Bazar, Bandarban and Jessore districts. Posters explaining symptom…
Source — ICRC
Read more Suisse : des détenus accros à la prégabaline mettent les médecins sous pression
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Europe
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Switzerland
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Middle East
Access to legal rights
Health
Iran
The report indicates extremely poor health conditions in the detention center, including “dirty” bathrooms, with prison authorities refusing to give the prisoners cleaning supplies despite repeated requests.
Daemi wrote that her report was based on the stories of women who had recently been release…
Source — IranWire
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Asia
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Russia
“Strapped down, had genitals shoved in their faces”. How a prison hospital in Krasnoyarsk became a torture dungeon
Source — The Insider
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Togo
What is the response to offences committed by minors? In many cases, it is detention. Civil society actors express concern over the situation of minors in conflict with the law. Three key questions shed light on this issue.
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Africa
Culture
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Dr. Dreisinger is the founder of the Incarceration Nations Network (INN), an international community that works to support, instigate and popularize prison reform efforts around the world. Prison Insider met her in Lyon during a joint screening of the docuseries. We asked her three questions in a v…
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Pakistan: submerged and forgotten
Interview
Asia
Access to legal rights
Health
Material conditions
Pakistan
Pakistan experienced torrential rains between June and September 2022. The floods submerged a third of the country. What about prisons? Zainab Mahboob and Fakhra Irshad from Justice Project Pakistan shared with us what they know about the current situation. Interview.
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Iran : humanitaire belge arrêté : la famille dénonce des conditions de détention "indignes"
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Iran
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España: el déficit de médicos en las cárceles se agudiza: menos de 200 sanitarios para 55.000 presos
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Europe
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Spain
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COVID-19: what’s next?
Opinion