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Latin America: como evitar brotes de coronavirus en las cárceles
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Argentina: plan de continuidad pedagógica en las cárceles
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Latin America: la desesperación en las cárceles frente al Covid-19
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Chile: la pandemia en las cárceles, riesgo de contagio de la población penal es 6 veces más alto
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Russia: le mystère de la faible propagation du coronavirus dans les prisons
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France: surpopulation, personnel débordé, locaux "immondes", le triste bilan des prisons françaises en 2019
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France: près de 1 000 personnalités et organisations appellent Emmanuel Macron à "une véritable politique de déflation carcérale"
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France: la Chancellerie demande aux juges de ne pas faire exécuter les peines d'incarcération de moins de six mois
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France: crise du Covid-19, une occasion historique pour les prisons
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Honduras: prison brawl leaves six dead, two injured
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Six inmates died and two more were injured between Saturday night and Sunday morning in a violent brawl in a Honduran women’s prison home to 835, part of which was set on fire, a prison official said on Sunday. The brawl started on Saturday night in the National Women’s Peni…Mexico: eight inmates killed in prison fight
PUENTE GRANDE, Mexico (Reuters) - A violent clash at a prison in Mexico’s central state of Jalisco on Friday left eight inmates dead and another eight prisoners hospitalized with injuries, state security officials said. During the incident at a jail in the Puente Grande complex, three people were k…France: le ministère de la justice veut limiter les emballements de sortie de crise
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France: la reprise des parloirs, très encadrée, laisse détenus et familles "frustrés"
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France: ce que le confinement nous a fait vivre doit nous interroger sur la prison
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France: “Le Grand Jour, de la prison à l’Odéon” sur LCP, le théâtre pour briser ses chaînes
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USA: en Floride, des milliers d’anciens détenus pourraient retrouver leur droit de vote
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USA: cleaning supplies are so scarce at this arizona prison, detainees are using shampoo and menstrual pads, lawsuit says
The plaintiffs want an independent expert to assess whether the facility has implemented social distancing measures, testing procedures, and hygiene practices adequate enough to reasonably protect detainees from contracting COVID-19 while in custody.USA: COVID-19 takes a hidden toll behind bars
COVID-19 is spreading rapidly in U.S. jails and prisons, but testing of inmates and staff remains spotty and many confirmed cases are going unreported. The resulting lack of data has deep implications for the fight against the virus, because prison outbreaks can move easily to surrounding communiti…France: pourquoi la crise sanitaire révèle les dysfonctionnements du “tout carcéral”
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