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News
Africa
Facilities
Overcrowding
Alternatives
Rwanda: prison overcrowding drops by 30%
National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) has reported a 30 per cent reduction in correctional facilities
News
Africa
Facilities
Alternatives
Rwanda: prison occupancy falls below capacity for first time in years
Rwanda’s prison population is now below the total capacity of correctional
News
Africa
Protest
Violence
Inmates protesting living conditions at Gasabo prison in the Rwandan capital of Kigali hurled stones over the prison’s walls on Monday, damaging nearby houses and disrupting traffic, residents and officials said.
News
Middle East
Migrants and rights groups say the migrants are seeking asylum after fleeing war and persecution, but the government maintains that they are “job seekers” and “infiltrators.”
News
Africa
Torture
Frank Bizimana was deported on Tuesday having spent more than a year in a jail in Ntungamo where he was physically and physiologically tortured.
Africa: prisons and contexts
Interview
Interview
incarceration rates in Rwanda can be explained by the circumstances following the genocide, while those in South Africa are a result of the massive expansion
News
Africa
Health
Material conditions
Torture
Violence
Work
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.
Burundi: forbidden to defend
Interview
Africa
Women
Minors
Interview
Justice
Material conditions
Overcrowding
S. is a lawyer. She works to defend the rights of women and children. She was imprisoned from February 2023 to April 2024 because of her activism. We met her during her visit to Paris (France).
Europe
Interview
Justice
Alternatives
In France, restorative justice is a complementary practice to the criminal punishment for an offence. Maiana Bidegain is the codirector of Meeting my aggressor, a documentary that recounts the steps she took to meet the man who raped her when she was a child. We asked her three questions.
Africa
Analysis
Access to legal rights
Material conditions
Death penalty
Torture
Social ties
Since 2003, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has observed a de facto moratorium on executions. The authorities do not release any information regarding the application of the death penalty in the country.
Years in the Row
Analysis Thematic paper
Africa
Analysis
Women
Asia
Europe
Minors
Foreign prisoners
Discipline
Health
Thematic paper
Mental health
Drugs
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Death penalty
Torture
Some people fear death every morning. Others are sentenced to death in countries that no longer carry out executions. At least 483 executions were documented in 2020. Prison Insider publishes an overview of practices in nine countries that have not abolished the death penalty.
News
Africa
Coronavirus
Health
Material conditions
Protest
The Covid-19 does not stop at prison gates. Prisoners often live in overcrowded cells and unsanitary contexts, sharing cells.
What measures are taken to guarantee the safety of all prisoners and prison staff? What are the consequences of the pandemic on the living conditions in prisons? — Update 09…