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Costa Rica: managing uncertainty
Analysis
Coronavirus
Analysis
South America
Material conditions
Activities
Social ties
As the COVID-19 outbreaks around the world suprised most governments, how did the Costa Rican authorities respond to the crisis behind the bars? Were prison authorities prepared to avoid the spread of the virus? Which measures were taken and how did them impact prisoners’ lives?
News
Central America and the Caribbean
Since 1999 Costa Rica hasn’t built a new prison, but for this 2017, the country will have three new Comprehensive Care Units that will host 1,600 prisoners in spaces suitable for work and study.
News
Central America and the Caribbean
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News
Central America and the Caribbean
Casi 15 años después de la crítica del Comité contra la Tortura de Naciones Unidas, Costa Rica ha decidido clausurar de manera definitiva los 44 espacios carcelarios conocidos como Las Tumbas, en mitad de la mayor cárcel de Costa Rica, llamada La Reforma. La medida es el más reciente de los pasos d…
News
Central America and the Caribbean
Torture
Integrantes del Subcomité para la Prevención de la Tortura y Otros Tratos o Penas Crueles, Inhumanos o Degradantes (SPT) de la ONU, verificarán desde hoy el trato que reciben en Costa Rica los reclusos, migrantes y enfermos mentales.
News
Coronavirus
Central America and the Caribbean
Health
El Ministerio de Justicia y Paz confirmó, este jueves, que en sus cárceles hay tres casos positivos nuevos de Covid-19.
News
Central America and the Caribbean
Costa Rica habilita espacios en cárceles para mejorar vida de mujeres presas
La Vanguardia
Costa Rica
Global prison trends 2018
Analysis Report
Analysis
North America
Report
Central America and the Caribbean
Pre-trial detention
South America
Women
Asia
Europe
Middle East
Long-term prisoners
Justice
Overcrowding
Penal Reform International and the Thailand Institute of Justice co-published their 2018 annual report aiming to provide a global account on the state of prisons and the use of imprisonment throughout the world.
Managing uncertainty in prison: diverse responses to COVID-19
Analysis Thematic paper
Africa
Coronavirus
Analysis
Crises
Central America and the Caribbean
South America
Asia
Europe
Thematic paper
Material conditions
Social ties
As the COVID-19 outbreaks around the world suprised most governments, how did the authorities respond to the crisis behind the bars? Were prison authorities prepared to avoid the spread of the virus? Which measures were taken and how did them impact prisoners’ lives?
News
Central America and the Caribbean
LGBTQI
La represión es más brutal si sos LGTBI, dicen ex presas políticas.
News
Central America and the Caribbean
The remote island prison dubbed the Guantanamo Bay of Panama houses the country’s most dangerous prisoners, but concerns are mounting over harsh conditions and human rights violations occurring behind the prison’s impregnable walls.
Women bearing the weight of the law
Analysis
Africa
Analysis
North America
Central America and the Caribbean
South America
Women
Asia
Europe
LGBTQI
Oceania
Access to legal rights
Justice
Drugs
Death penalty
Violence
More and more women across the world are being imprisoned, mostly for minor, non-violent offences. What discriminatory and punitive logic is being applied? What is being done to fight back against it?