Mental health

May 19, 2020

Honduras: cut off by coronavirus, Hondurans in packed prison suffer mental toll

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LA ESPERANZA, Honduras (Reuters) - For Yerbin Estrada, the worst part of the day is when the sun begins to set. The hundreds of inmates of La Esperanza prison in central Honduras must leave its small courtyard and file back to their cramped cells. “That is when the hell really begins,” said the powerfully…

Source — Reuters

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April 9, 2020

France: en 2019, ils sont morts en prison

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March 12, 2020

Women in prison: a "tough place"

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Women and girls make up 7% of the global prison population, in various proportions. While they represent 3% in African countries, it goes up to 8 % in the Americas, and 6 % in Europe. The highest proportions are found in Hong Kong-China (21%), Laos (18%) or Qatar (15%). Read more

March 5, 2020

USA: el confinamiento en solitario prolongado en las cárceles equivale a tortura psicológica

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November 19, 2019

USA: Artist JR teamed up with current and former inmates to create a mural at a supermax prison outside LA

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November 17, 2019

France: délinquants "psychiatriques": leur place est-elle en prison?

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Europe Mental health France

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November 13, 2019

UK: security firm to monitor prisoner vulnerability at Kilmarnock Prison in bid to prevent suicide and self harm

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Europe Mental health Suicide United Kingdom

Changes in behaviour are highlighted to prison officers – allowing them to intervene before a prisoner self-harms or attempts suicide.

Source — Daily Record

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November 12, 2019

Turkey: radicalisation en prison, l'ONU en quête de solutions

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November 1, 2019

UK: mental health act: calls to end "horrific" detention of young people with autism

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“It has been left to the media and desperate, anguished parents to expose the brutal reality of our system of detention of people with learning disabilities or autism.”

Source — Huffigton Post

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September 24, 2019

France: prisons and mental health

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Europe Health Mental health France

People with mental illness are over represented in the prison population. This group is particularly vulnerable and subjected to violence and abuse. Prison psychiatry is a sector that has undergone significant changes lately, in France and elsewhere. Where do we stand right now? In July 2014, Adeline… Read more

September 18, 2019

Spain: alertan del elevado número de casos de enfermedad mental en las cárceles

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Europe Mental health Spain

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September 5, 2019

UK: with parents in prison, kids at risk for lasting psychiatric problems

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Europe Mental health United Kingdom

Children who have a parent in prison may be more than twice as likely as other kids to have depression, attention problems and conduct disorders by the time they reach adolescence, a U.S. study suggests.

Source — London South East

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August 25, 2019

Russia: 'Black Hole', prosecutors probing allegations of punitive psychiatric treatment in Siberian prison

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Igor Sovchuk, a prisoner at prison IK-6 in the city of Tyumen, Siberia, complained repeatedly of a headache. After being told repeatedly to shut up, the guards finally agreed to take him to the medical unit. He was given an injection and sent back to his cell.

Source — RFERL

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August 19, 2019

Japan: surveillance and old age

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Asia Long-term prisoners Mental health Japan

Akaike Kazumasa is a criminologist and specialises in the Japanese prison system. Rate of imprisonment, working as a prisoner, prisoners’ age: Prison Insider asks him three questions to understand the particularities of the country’s penitentiary system. Read more

August 12, 2019

Spain: Sevilla, una de las cárceles con más presos con trastornos mentales graves

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Europe Mental health Spain

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August 5, 2019

Poland: groundbreaking lawsuit targets violations at controversial psychiatric facility

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Europe Mental health Poland

A client of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (HFHR) has filed a lawsuit against the State Treasury, seeking damages for multiple violations at the National Centre for the Prevention of Dissocial Behaviours.

Source — Liberties

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July 29, 2019

Australia: juvenile prison guards strip searches cause mental health problems, former inmates claim

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Children as young as 10 years old are being routinely strip searched in juvenile detention in NSW with minimal or no contraband found, according to new data.

Source — ABC

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July 18, 2019

Canada: santé mentale en prison, « une fabrique d’itinérance »

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April 24, 2019

Spain: denuncian la falta de asistencia psiquiátrica en las cárceles de Castellón

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Europe Mental health Spain

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April 23, 2019

United States of America: solitary confinement worsens mental illness

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Prisoners who volunteered for a mental health diversion program say promises of therapy and time out of their cells weren’t fulfilled. And Texas prison officials aren’t regularly tracking success rates — even as they ask lawmakers to fund an expansion of the program.

Source — The Texas Tribune

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February 26, 2019

France : surpopulation, violence, contrebande et troubles psychiatriques dans les prisons de La Réunion

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January 14, 2019

Iceland: no prison psychiatrist in five years

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Europe Mental health Iceland

There hasn’t been a psychiatrist working in Icelandic prisons for more than five years, despite that fact that prisoners are guaranteed mental health services by law, RÚV reports. Three individuals incarcerated in Icelandic prisons have committed suicide in the last two years, a fact that is being linked…

Source — Iceland Review

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November 11, 2018

France: soignants en psychiatrie, le « règne de l’absurde » ?

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Europe Mental health France

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Source — Worldzine

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November 1, 2018

United Kingdom: inspectors warn of worsening conditions for mentally ill inmates

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Europe Mental health United Kingdom

Mentally ill prisoners in the largest high-security jail in the UK face “totally unacceptable” delays in being transferred to a secure hospital, leading to a further deterioration in their conditions, inspectors have said.

Source — The Guardian

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