Tag: prisons
Faced with prison overcrowding, the government ordered to make its prisons worthy
Two years after being condemned by Europe for the unworthy conditions of detention in its penal establishments, France is called on Thursday by the International Observatory of Prisons to implement…
Prisons: entry into force of a new “prison code”
A new “prison code“, bringing together all the legal provisions around detention, comes into force on Sunday, according to a press release from the Ministry of Justice. Announced in March…
Prisons: the number of detainees in France increases further and passes the 71,000 mark on April 1
The number of detainees in France exceeded the 71,000 mark on April 1. A figure which confirms the rise above the symbolic threshold of 70,000 recorded in March, according to…
Prisons: the number of detainees rose above 70,000 on March 1
This threshold had not been reached in French prisons since the start of the health crisis two years ago, according to official figures published on Thursday March 31. The 188…
Ecuador to pardon 5,000 prisoners to unclog prisons
Europe 1 with AFP 11:29 a.m., February 23, 2022 In Ecuador, President Guillermo Lasso announced on Tuesday the pardon of some 5,000 prisoners to reduce overcrowding in the country’s prisons,…
Covid-19: more and more clusters in prisons
The sanitary situation of prisons worries the unions of prison supervisors. And for good reason: according to the latest figures, 370 inmates out of 70,000 are currently positive for the…
The Covid is also returning to prisons, the unions are alarmed
The Covid-19 pandemic in Francecase “Social distancing is almost impossible”: while several sources of contamination have been detected, prison staff unions are asking for reinforced measures to curb the spread…
Approaches, overflights: more drones spotted over prisons again in 2021
The ministries of justice in Germany are concerned about drone flights over prisons. In the most populous federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, ten and twice as many drones were sighted…
Putin calls for punishment for torture in Russian prisons
Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, calls for penalties for those responsible for torture in prisons at his annual press conference. Photo: Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP / dpa “These are crimes…
Due to full prisons – Denmark wants to relocate prisoners to Kosovo – News
contents 300 deportation detainees are supposed to serve their sentences in Kosovo. It is not the first attempt to outsource the “stranger problem”, reports SRF correspondent Bruno Kaufmann. Denmark’s prisons…
the heads of the armies and the prisons resign
Members of the National Police and the Army carry out an operation inside Guayaquil Penitentiary in Ecuador on November 15, 2021. – / AFP The heads of Ecuador’s armed forces…
Torture videos from prisons: The Gulag system lives on in Russia
Wednesday, November 03, 2021 Torture videos from prisons The Gulag system lives on in Russia At the beginning of October, Sergei Saveliev published recordings of brutal scenes from a Russian…