United States of America
Seen in the press
Read our selection of press reports about this country. This is a short description of prison conditions on a national scale.
USA: après des SOS lancés par des détenus, une prison recouvre les fenêtres
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USA: many deaths at New York state prisons are preventable, review finds
A state prisoner who’d been losing a dramatic amount of weight began to vomit uncontrollably, and was repeatedly given Ibuprofen that made her internal bleeding worse before she died. Another person behind bars waited nearly an hour for a nurse to call an ambulance after he collapsed and had a seiz…USA: massive COVID-19 outbreak at a southern NM prison hits just one type of inmates — sex offenders. That’s by design.
As the coronavirus established a foothold in southern New Mexico’s Otero County Prison Facility in mid-May, state officials quietly moved 39 inmates out of the massive complex near the Texas border to another prison near Santa Fe. The inmates shared something in common: None was a sex offender. In…USA: abogados, “es probable que haya más contagiados en cárceles”
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USA: los ayuntamientos gastan lo mismo en Policía y cárceles que en sanidad y hospitales
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USA: après 17 ans d’interruption, les exécutions fédérales reprennent
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USA: les spectaculaires progrès de New York contre l’incarcération massive des Noirs
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