
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.

Estados Unidos: Nueva York trasladará mujeres y transexuales de la peligrosa cárcel de Rikers
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United States: trans inmate wins federal case to get gender affirming surgery
A U.S. District Court judge has ruled that a prison would violate an inmate’s constitutional rights by denying her from having gender-affirming surgery, and has ordered correction officials to allow for the inmate to make such arrangements.United States: reproductive justice prison system
The United States imprisons the most women in the world. Across the United States, approximately 200,000 women are incarcerated—nearly an 800 percent increase since 1980. Women of color are disproportionately affected by the criminal justice system. In 2017, twice as many Black women and 1.3 times…
Etats-Unis: peine de mort, l’administration Trump poursuit les exécutions malgré sa défaite
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United States: the role of plant-based food in the prison system
British prisons and jails must provide for vegan inmates by law; as of January this year, veganism is an explicitly protected belief under the Equality Act 2010, the same as religious beliefs. This protection is not absolute, nor does veganism have legal protection everywhere in the world. In the U…United States: California law is step forward but fails to guarantee safety for trans prisoners
Syiaah Skylit has been imprisoned in California since 2015. Despite multiple requests to be placed in a women’s prison, Skylit, a Black trans woman, has always been incarcerated in the state’s men’s prisons. There, she has faced attacks by incarcerated men as well as sexual abuse and retaliation by…United States: advocates file complaint over Texas youth prison conditions
Detainees in Texas’ juvenile prisons suffer from frequent physical and sexual abuse, inadequate mental healthcare and high rates of staff turnover, two youth advocacy groups wrote in a federal complaint Wednesday. The rights of the hundreds of youths detained in five secure facilities around the st…United States: California kept prison factories open
California’s prison system has taken drastic measures to combat the coronavirus, halting rehab programs, religious services and educational classes. But correctional authorities kept one type of operation running through much of the last six months: prison factories.
Estados Unidos: la paradoja de la pena de muerte
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