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Rusia: detenciones de personas que protestaban pacíficamente

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Pre-trial detention Asia Access to legal rights Protest Overcrowding Violence 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

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Central America and the Caribbean Overcrowding Mexico

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Luxembourg : "la prison reste le reflet de la société"

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Europe Material conditions Overcrowding Social ties Alternatives Luxembourg

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Egypt: abused and denied heath care, prisoners’ lives at risk

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Africa Coronavirus Pre-trial detention Access to legal rights Justice Health Material conditions Overcrowding Torture Violence 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

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France: les détenus étrangers sous-protégés, notamment dans les Outre-mer, selon l’Observatoire international des prisons

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Foreign prisoners Europe Access to legal rights Justice Health Material conditions Overcrowding France

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Pakistan: prison reform needed

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Coronavirus Pre-trial detention Asia Access to legal rights Justice Overcrowding Social ties Alternatives Pakistan
A joint report by Amnesty International and the Justice Project Pakistan, Prisoners of the Pandemic─ The Right To Health, notes that the reduction of overcrowding in prisons during the first wave of the coronavirus epidemic was not undertaken, even the second wave was now upon us, and there was a risk…

Source — Pakistan today

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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: prisons are Covid-19 hotbeds. When should inmates get the vaccine?

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Coronavirus North America Health Overcrowding United States
They live in crowded conditions, sharing bathrooms and eating facilities where social distancing is impossible. They have high rates of asthma, diabetes and heart disease. Many struggle with mental illness. A disproportionate number are Black and Hispanic, members of minority communities that have been…

Source — The New York Times

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Sri Lanka: Amnesty International calls for thorough, impartial probe into prison deaths

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Coronavirus Asia Protest Overcrowding Violence Sri Lanka
Amnesty International has called for a thorough and impartial investigation into the deaths of at least 11 inmates in a prison riot in Sri Lanka and asked the authorities to implement their commitments to release hundreds of detainees to ease overcrowding and improve conditions in the country’s jails. The…

Source — The Week

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United Kingdom: investing in yet more prison places is not the way to cut crime

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Europe Overcrowding Activities Rehabilitation Work United Kingdom
With the dismaying announcement that the government plans to fund 18,000 more prison places by 2026, we are forced to ask, once again, why crime prevention fails to get the same emphasis as punishment. Last Wednesday, the chancellor announced more than £4bn in capital funding – spread over four years…

Source — The Guardian

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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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Mexico: prisons, the permanent war of Covid-19

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Coronavirus Access to legal rights Health Material conditions Overcrowding Social ties Mexico
“Fighting for the law, against the penitentiary system, it’s like fighting a monster.” Decided of her conviction is the wife of an incarcerated person currently confined in Centro Varonil de Seguridad Penitenciaria I (CEVASEP I), just north of Mexico City. Her husband, falsely accused of kidnaping, has…

Source — Open democracy

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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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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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