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Coronavirus: Prison Fever / 2021

Africa Coronavirus North America Central America and the Caribbean South America Asia Elderly prisoners Europe Middle East Oceania Health Mental health Material conditions Activities Social ties
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 29/03/2021 Read more
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Irán: recluso sometido a 60 azotes y en riesgo de amputación tras intento de suicidio

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Middle East Health Mental health Torture Violence Iran

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Pakistán: una sentencia del Tribunal Supremo prohíbe las ejecuciones de personas con discapacidad mental

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Asia Access to legal rights Justice Mental health Death penalty Pakistan

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Maroc : des personnes pénalement irresponsables en prison, alerte sur une anomalie carcérale

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Africa Access to legal rights Justice Mental health Morocco

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Canada : bannir les courtes peines de prison pour éviter des suicides

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North America Pre-trial detention Justice Mental health Suicide Alternatives Canada

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Suisse : l'aide au suicide pour les prisonniers envisagée

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Europe Access to legal rights Justice Mental health Suicide Switzerland

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France : les suicides à la prison marseillaise des Baumettes ne sont pas une fatalité

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Europe Justice Health Mental health Suicide Violence France

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Belgique : "on est revenu en pleine seconde vague à un taux de surpopulation assez élevé"

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Coronavirus Culture Europe Access to legal rights Discipline Justice Health Mental health Overcrowding Activities Social ties Belgium

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United States: reproductive justice prison system

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North America Women Access to legal rights Health Mental health Material conditions Violence Social ties United States
The United States imprisons the most women in the world. Across the United States, approximately 200,000 women are incarcerated—nearly an 800 percent increase since 1980. Women of color are disproportionately affected by the criminal justice system. In 2017, twice as many Black women and 1.3 times as…

Source — New Security Beat

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United Kingdom: Howard League exposes injustice of prison disciplinary system

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Minors Europe Access to legal rights Discipline Justice Mental health Overcrowding United Kingdom
Figures show that the number of formal hearings has risen to a record high. In a new briefing, the charity explores how rule-breaking in prisons in England and Wales is managed through formal disciplinary hearings, known as adjudications, where prisoners can be given punishments including solitary confinement…

Source — Ekklesia

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

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North America Mental health Violence Rehabilitation United States
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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United States: mental health crisis in California’s lock-ups worsens with Covid-19

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Coronavirus North America Mental health Suicide United States
Rather than improve under a class action lawsuit dating back to 1990 (now Plata v. Newsom) and seeking constitutionally acceptable mental health care for prisoners, conditions continue to slide, exacerbated by the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. Mental health problems are especially egregious at CDCR’s California…

Source — Prison legal news

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France : pour les plus radicaux, l’isolement, et après ?

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Europe Access to legal rights Discipline Mental health

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Turquie : vingt ans après ma libération

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Women Middle East Long-term prisoners Access to legal rights Justice Mental health Turkey

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République démocratique du Congo : des femmes détenues violées lors des émeutes à la prison de Lubumbashi

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Africa Women Justice Health Mental health Violence Congo - Kinshasa

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Arabia Saudí: Loujain al-Hathloul debe ser liberada sin condiciones

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Women Middle East Access to legal rights Justice Health Mental health Protest Saudi Arabia

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France: l’épidémie de Covid est entrée en prison

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Coronavirus Europe Health Mental health Material conditions Overcrowding Social ties France

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

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Coronavirus North America Women Health Mental health Social ties Alternatives Rehabilitation Canada
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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Belgique : "on a tous droit à un peu d'affection"

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Coronavirus Europe Mental health Protest Social ties Belgium

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

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South America Women Mental health Activities Rehabilitation Work Argentina

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