Overcrowding
Niger: the cost of living
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Africa
Pre-trial detention
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Niger
Two prisoners attest to their conditions in overpopulated prisons. A way to survive: pay, every month, for access to better prison conditions.
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India
Even as the Bombay High Court has suggested shifting undertrial prisoners from crowded jails to other jails for an “equitable distribution” in light of an alarming rise in Covid-19 case, data from the prison department shows that nearly all prisons in the state are filled to capacity or are overcrowded.
Apart…
Source — The indian express
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Europe
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Rehabilitation
Malta
The Dean questioned the mechanisms that judges can utilise when handing down sentences to those convicted. “We need to ask: ‘Why are there more people in jail?’ Is it because we are being more efficient in the way we are investigating, or are there other difficulties, such as judges not having other…
Source — Independent
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Africa
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Ghana
To enable the centre operate effectively some members of Parliament, especially from the Volta Region, have presented medical equipment worth GH¢65,780 to the prison.
The medical equipment, including beds, thermometers, stretchers, stethoscopes, sterilisers and computers were purchased from donations…
Source — Ghanaweb
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Middle East
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Saudi Arabia
Mohammed al-Qahtani, co-founder of the now disbanded Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association (ACPRA), formerly one of Saudi Arabia’s few independent human rights organizations, is serving a 10-year prison sentence solely for his peaceful activism. His wife told Amnesty International that his family…
Source — Amnesty international
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Belgium: what is Haren ?
Interview
Europe
Facilities
Overcrowding
Belgium
One billion euros have been invested in the construction of Haren, a massive prison complex located on the outskirts of Brussels.
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Italy: “political action is powerless"
Interview
Coronavirus
Europe
Health
Protest
Overcrowding
Italy
The second wave of the pandemic hit prisons with overwhelming force. What can the authorities do?
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Coronavirus
Health
Overcrowding
Amnesty International has released a new report, produced in collaboration with Prison Insider. The spread of COVID-19 in prisons and other detention facilities has thrown into stark relief systemic threats to health in detention such as overcrowding and poor sanitary conditions
Source — Amnesty International
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Thailand: managing uncertainty
Analysis
Coronavirus
Asia
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Activities
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Work
Thailand
As the COVID-19 outbreaks around the world suprised most governments, how did the Thai authorities respond to the crisis behind the bars? Were prison authorities prepared to avoid the spread of the virus? Which measures were taken and how did them impact prisoners’ lives?
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South Africa: managing uncertainty
Analysis
Africa
Coronavirus
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Overcrowding
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South Africa
As the COVID-19 outbreaks around the world suprised most governments, how did the South African authorities respond to the crisis behind the bars? Were prison authorities prepared to avoid the spread of the virus? Which measures were taken and how did them impact prisoners’ lives?
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Haití: sangrienta fuga de una cárcel, se escaparon 400 presos y hay 25 muertos
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Central America and the Caribbean
Protest
Overcrowding
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Haiti
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Venezuela: detenidos de Policarirubana piden descongestionamiento
News
Coronavirus
South America
Health
Overcrowding
Venezuela
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Ecuador: violentos motines dejan más de 75 muertos en tres cárceles
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South America
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Violence
Ecuador
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Asia
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Alternatives
Malaysia
With Malaysia already facing an impending prison overcrowding issue where close to 70,000 are currently serving jail terms for various offences across the country, lawyer Sangeet Kaur Deo urged the government to stop sending movement control order (MCO) offenders to prison as it will only worsen the…
Source — Malay Mail
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Europe
Overcrowding
Ireland
The Irish Prison Service has insisted that it is effectively dealing with potential crowding issues at jails across the country.
The number of prisoners has been rising as more remand court cases and more trials are taking place.
But with the COVID crisis looming over the prison system, bosses say they…
Source — Irish mirror
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Russia
The number of convicts held in correctional system facilities has decreased in Russia up to 482,000 people by the beginning of 2021, the Supreme Court’s head Vyacheslav Lebedev announced Tuesday.
According to the highest instance’s Chairman, the number of detainees continues to decline. Last year, such…
Source — RAPSI
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Rusia: detenciones de personas que protestaban pacíficamente
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Asia
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Russia
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Mexico: población en cárceles crece a ritmo récord en 2020, hay 14 mil reos más que al inicio del año
News
Central America and the Caribbean
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Mexico
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Luxembourg : "la prison reste le reflet de la société"
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Europe
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Luxembourg
This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: French
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Brazil
The number of inmates rises so fast, that the prison system can’t properly accommodate them, leading to overcrowding and violence.
At this point, violence is so ingrained that riots, decapitations and gruesome scenes are becoming commonplace in Brazil’s jails.
In the last four years, hundreds of people…
Source — CGTN
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Europe
Overcrowding
Spain
According to recently released statistics from the Instituciones Penitenciarias, Spain currently has 47,373 convicted criminals in its prison system. This marks a dramatic 38% decrease from its peak in 2009, when there were 65,500 convicts behind bars.
Reforms in Spain’s Criminal Code, including the…
Source — Euro Weekly
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Egypt
Prison officials in Egypt are subjecting prisoners of conscience and others held for political reasons to torture, cruel and inhuman conditions of detention and are deliberately denying them health care to punish dissent.
The report, “What do I care if you die?” Negligence and denial of health care in…
Source — Amnesty International
Read more France: les détenus étrangers sous-protégés, notamment dans les Outre-mer, selon l’Observatoire international des prisons
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Foreign prisoners
Europe
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Justice
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France
This article is not available in English. This article is available in the following versions: French
Coronavirus
Europe
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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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