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Argentina: sin visitas y con menos actividades, así viven la cuarentena los presos
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Chile: ordenan mejoras en la cárcel de Valdivia
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France: la galère des familles de détenus après la suppression d’un arrêt de bus desservant la prison de Fleury-Mérogis
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France: en 2019, près de 54 000 étrangers sans titre de séjour ont été enfermés
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United States: nearly 1,000 inmates, more than 200 staff in Wisconsin prisons have tested positive for coronavirus
After nearly flattening for about three months, positive coronavirus tests in Wisconsin prisons are back on the rise at rates worse than ever. More than 600 inmates in state-run prisons tested positive for coronavirus in the past month, bringing the total to 953 since the beginning of the pandemic.…
Australia: prisoner advocates call for abolition of 'discriminatory' voting restrictions as inmates prepare to cast vote in state election for the first time
For the first time in Queensland’s history, thousands of inmates in correctional centres across the state will be given the right to vote in the upcoming october state election.
Lebanon: the largest prison grapples with alarming covid-19 outbreak
Lebanon’s largest prison on Thursday was grappling with an alarming coronavirus outbreak, as many inmates refused to take preventative measures or get tested under the impression that catching the virus could speed up their release as part of a rumored general amnesty, the head of the country’s doc…Liban: plus de 200 cas de covid-19 dans la principale prison du pays
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Ouganda: vaste chasse à l'homme pour retrouver 200 prisonniers échappés
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Estados Unidos: informes profundamente alarmantes sobre esterilización forzosa de mujeres detenidas por el ICE
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Turquie: l’écrivain Ahmet Altan entame sa cinquième année en prison en Turquie
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Liban : le documentaire qui met le pays face à lui-même
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Kenya: the dehumanisation and exploitation of inmates in state prisons
Kenyan prisons today carry the DNA of their forebears – the colonial prisons and Mau Mau detention camps. They are about brutalising prisoners into submission and scaring the rest of society into compliance with the state. And like their colonial predecessors, they are also sites of forced labour.Venezuela: deaths inside prisons doubled during pandemic
Inmate deaths have doubled in Venezuela’s jails during the coronavirus pandemic, a crisis that underscores how the country’s anarchic prisons foment violence and spread disease. Between March and August of 2020, 287 prisoners died in prisons and police holding cells, a jump from the 137 during the…France : suicides en prison
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Biélorussie : les protestataires libérés racontent les tortures en prison
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France: Eric Dupond-Moretti annonce un budget 2021 "exceptionnel" pour la justice
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Nicaragua: mujeres trans hablan desde las prisiones durante la COVID-19
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México: las otras pandemias en las cárceles
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El Salvador: "son criminales y no están con este gobierno"
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España: el gobierno vasco urge a "adaptar la política penitenciaria a la realidad actual"
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