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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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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
Read more España: la Comunitat tendrá el mayor psiquiátrico penitenciario de España, con 500 internos
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Spain
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United States: addressing the structural inequalities underlying a failing prison health system
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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’. Homer Venters is a physician and epidemiologist working at the intersection of incarceration, health and human rights.…
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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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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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Netherlands
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’. Michiel van de Wolf discusses the Dutch approach for dealing with those considered as mentally disordered offenders.
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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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Malta: Faculty for Social Wellbeing dean calls for end to solitary confinement in Malta’s prison
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Malta
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
Read more France : en prison, on se suicide dans l’indifférence
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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: los suicidios en las cárceles aumentan con la pandemia
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New Zealand
Documents obtained by RNZ shows Auckland Women’s Prison planned to keep Mihi Bassett in a segregation unit known as the pound “indefinitely” - breaking laws governing how, and how long, prisoners can be held there.
Guards also threatened to pepper-spray her minutes after she attempted suicide. In order…
Source — RNZ News
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Irán: recluso sometido a 60 azotes y en riesgo de amputación tras intento de suicidio
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UK: different sides of a shared story
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United Kingdom
As the pandemic hit the UK, researchers were banned from entering prisons. The Prison Reform Trust remotely mobilised about 800 prisoners to share how the measures were affecting them. Prison Insider asked them three questions.
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Ireland: social distress in prison
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Ireland
After a significant reform in Irish prisons, the CPT remains concerned about the conditions of detention in segregation cells and for mentally ill prisoners. A member of the monitoring body told us what she observed.
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Pakistán: una sentencia del Tribunal Supremo prohíbe las ejecuciones de personas con discapacidad mental
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Canada : bannir les courtes peines de prison pour éviter des suicides
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Suisse : l'aide au suicide pour les prisonniers envisagée
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Switzerland
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France : les suicides à la prison marseillaise des Baumettes ne sont pas une fatalité
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France
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France
The average prison occupancy rate fell below 100% in May. The country then had more places available than people incarcerated, fulfilling the wishes of many human rights organisations that had sought this for decades. What is the situation today? Is this decrease of the prison population a long-term…
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Belgique : "on est revenu en pleine seconde vague à un taux de surpopulation assez élevé"
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Belgium
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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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