Opinion

October 7, 2019

Detention conditions for inmates on death row: a lack of basic rights

Analysis Opinion

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… Read more

October 2, 2018

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… Read more

July 23, 2018

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… Read more

November 27, 2017

#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. Read more

March 1, 2017

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… Read more