Opinion
France: Inequality of life during an epidemic
Analysis
Opinion
Coronavirus
Women
Minors
Foreign prisoners
Europe
Health
Overcrowding
France
Those imprisoned or detained are in forced confinement, states Didier Fassin. He has published a forum on the Liberation website. He questions whether the “sense of responsibility and solidarity” advocated by Emmanuel Macron stops at the doors of prisons and overcrowded detention centres.
Source — Libération
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Death penalty
Violence
On the occasion of the 10 October 2019 World Day against the Death Penalty, the Planète Réfugiés-Droits de l’Homme (PRDH) organisation launched an international initiative at the Paris Bar Association concerning the prison conditions and treatment of prisoners on death rows around the world. The purpose…
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Reintegration: Prisoners, don’t eat that kind of bread!
Analysis
Opinion
Samuel Lourenço Filho spent nine years incarcerated in Brazil. To Samuel, the topic of reintegration is one that is not easy to swallow. On May 2018, he published his stance on the subject on a Brazilian journal website. With permission from the author, we have reproduced, translated and adapted the…
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Italy: a government plan for harsher prison conditions
Analysis
Opinion
Europe
Mental health
Italy
Five Star Movement - Lega’s governing contract poses some problems: here is what Giuseppe Mosconi Professor of Sociology of Law and President of Antigone Veneto thinks
At first reading, Chapter 12 of the Five Star Movement and Lega’s government plan (or “government contract,” as they call it) seems…
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#VotoPreso - A party where prisoners are not invited
Analysis
Opinion
South America
Access to legal rights
Justice
Chile
Chileans are preparing to vote for the second round of the 2017 presidential elections this coming December 17. Country with one of the highest incarceration rates in Latin America, the vote of its prison population can weigh heavily in an election that is likely to be tight.
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When murder occurs in the name of justice
Analysis
Opinion
Middle East
Justice
Death penalty
Seven death sentences are pronounced, in the first two months of 2017, in Palestine.
The Human Rights and Democracy Media Centers SHAMS published, in January 2017, a report on the use of death penalty in Palestine during 2016. The Palestinian National Authority (PNA), lead by the Hamas, issued 21 death…
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