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Colombia : las cuentas del Inpec tras ocho meses de pandemia en las cárceles

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Coronavirus South America Health Overcrowding Colombia

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France : "des risques de contamination par les prisonniers comme par les surveillants", l’alerte de la contrôleuse générale

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Coronavirus Europe Justice Overcrowding France

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France: à la prison de la Santé, les murs ont été poussés pour isoler tous les détenus arrivants

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Coronavirus Europe Justice Health Overcrowding Social ties France

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Argentina: crisis carcelaria. Una olla a presión que siempre está a punto de explotar

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Coronavirus South America Access to legal rights Justice Protest Overcrowding Argentina

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France: en pleine crise sanitaire, le ministre de la Justice s’inquiète de la remontée de la population carcérale

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Europe Justice Overcrowding Alternatives France

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Nigeria: security operatives kill 18 inmates in Warri prison after jailbreak

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Africa Access to legal rights Discipline Health Material conditions Protest Overcrowding Violence Nigeria
Not less than 18 persons have been killed following a jailbreak that happened at Okere Correctional Service (formerly prison), Warri, Delta State last Thursday. The jailbreak led to the freeing of many inmates with the arms service also killing some inmates in the process. SaharaReporters had published…

Source — Sahara reporters

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France: "il y avait 33 clusters en prison au 15 octobre" contre "trois en juin", s’inquiète la nouvelle Contrôleuse générale des prisons

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Coronavirus Europe Justice Health Overcrowding Alternatives France

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Argentina: advierten por los riesgos de contagio en las cárceles debido a la sobrepoblación

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Coronavirus South America Access to legal rights Health Material conditions Overcrowding Argentina

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Venezuela: denuncian violación de DDHC a reclusos en la subdelegación Cicpc Las Acacias

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Pre-trial detention South America Access to legal rights Justice Health Mental health Material conditions Overcrowding Social ties Venezuela

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Venezuela: el ministerio penitenciario ortogó 80 libertades con régimen de confianza en Guárico

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South America Access to legal rights Justice Material conditions Overcrowding Venezuela

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France: conditions de détention en prison

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Europe Access to legal rights Justice Material conditions Overcrowding France

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Chile: ordenan mejoras en la cárcel de Valdivia

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South America Health Material conditions Overcrowding Chile

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United Kingdom: the disgraceful prisons expose ministers' refusal to learn from mistakes

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Europe Access to legal rights Justice Material conditions Overcrowding United Kingdom
The slow-motion collapse of England and Wales’ prison system is a textbook example of the government’s repeated public service failures in the age of austerity. The mismanagement of the prison estate, exposed in a scathing report from the Commons public accounts committee, is a carbon copy of ministers’…

Source — The Guardian

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Australia: prisoner advocates call for abolition of 'discriminatory' voting restrictions as inmates prepare to cast vote in state election for the first time

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Coronavirus Pre-trial detention Access to legal rights Oceania Health Material conditions Overcrowding Rehabilitation Australia
Prior to the legislative changes that came into effect in January, Queensland had the most restrictive prisoner voting laws in the country, with inmates barred from participating in state or local government elections. Now, prisoners serving sentences of less than three years will be given the power…

Source — ABC

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Lebanon: the largest prison grapples with alarming covid-19 outbreak

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Coronavirus Middle East Health Material conditions Overcrowding Lebanon
Lebanon’s largest prison on Thursday was grappling with an alarming coronavirus outbreak, as many inmates refused to take preventative measures or get tested under the impression that catching the virus could speed up their release as part of a rumored general amnesty, the head of the country’s doctors…

Source — Daily Sabah

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Liban: plus de 200 cas de covid-19 dans la principale prison du pays

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Coronavirus Middle East Health Material conditions Overcrowding Lebanon

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Venezuela: deaths inside prisons doubled during pandemic

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Central America and the Caribbean Pre-trial detention Health Protest Overcrowding Violence Venezuela
Inmate deaths have doubled in Venezuela’s jails during the coronavirus pandemic, a crisis that underscores how the country’s anarchic prisons foment violence and spread disease. Between March and August of 2020, 287 prisoners died in prisons and police holding cells, a jump from the 137 during the same…

Source — InSight Crime

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México: las otras pandemias en las cárceles

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Coronavirus Central America and the Caribbean Health Mental health Material conditions Overcrowding Mexico

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Cambodia: ONG exigen que cumpla su promesa de liberar a 10.000 presos

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Coronavirus Asia Health Overcrowding Cambodia

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Colombia: Miles de visitas virtuales en cárceles por COVID

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Coronavirus South America Health Overcrowding Social ties Colombia

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Niger: Surpeuplées, les prisons sont des incubateurs pour les djihadistes

Africa Health Overcrowding Niger

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Bolivia: OMCT expresa preocupación por situación sanitaria en cárceles del país y pide modificar decreto de amnistía

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Coronavirus Health Overcrowding Bolivia

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Mexico: La fallida construcción de la infraestructura penitenciaria como negocio

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Central America and the Caribbean Material conditions Overcrowding Mexico

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