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Prisoners in Israel face 'unprecedented' rights violations, public defender's report says

A report by the Israel Public Defender's Office warned of harsher police violence, severe overcrowding in prisons and the implementation of more measures previously reserved for wh...

Three prisoners who stormed cell and murdered child k!ller will d!e in jail

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2 prisoners found guilty of helping correctional officer attack fellow inmate

A Hong Kong court found two prisoners guilty of helping a correctional officer attack a fellow inmate who was left severely wounded after a stick was repeatedly thrust into his rec...

Texas prisoners face new book ban after hundreds test positive for synthetic drugs

Inmates say the policy unfairly punishes them — and note that prison staff also bring in contraband.

In Federal Prisons, Some Guards Use Fear and Violence to Stifle Complaints

Prisoners in federal facilities must file most grievances with the guards — a system they say exposes them to retaliation, including physical abuse.

Inmates alleging torture take over Venezuelan prison

Texas prisoners face new book ban after hundreds test positive for synthetic drugs

Inmates say the policy unfairly punishes them — and note that prison staff also bring in contraband.

Ex-prisoners abandoned at their most vulnerable | Letters

James Stoddart and Richard Eltringham respond to an investigation which found that deaths within two weeks of leaving prison have hit a record highYour investigation showing that d...

Adiala inmates use unique code words for daily life

Prisoners describe internal culture, expensive facilities and harsh living conditions

Bhutan: 2 Political Prisoners Freed, but 28 Remain

Click to expand Image Bhutanese former political prisoners Chatur Man Tamang, left, and...

Jailers and officials at Russia's 'torture prisons' in Ukraine exposed by BBC

Former prisoners accuse the men of abuse in detention centres and want to see them brought to trial.

Overcrowded and overheated, Korean prisons become intolerable for both inmates and officers

With a metallic click, cold metal cuffs close around both wrists. “You are now in custody.” Suddenly, moving one’s arms freely becomes impossible. The discomfort sets in quickly, a...

Prisoners to receive calls directly to cells under pilot

Prisoners at the women's Dóchas Centre and the Training Unit at Mountjoy Prison in Dublin will be allowed to receive phone calls from listed friends and family directly to their ce...

Grim reality of prison conditions laid bare in damning report

Inmates in England and Wales live among vermin while gangs control entire wings, monitors warn, with failures ‘at risk of becoming normalised’Staff at immigration detention centre...

They sat bound in a Shin Bet basement in Lebanon, soaked in urine. My job was to guard them

For one night during the 1982 Lebanon war, I was assigned to guard Lebanese detainees. But who actually guarded whom?

‘Rejected’: How Federal Prisons Stonewall Grievances and Deny Care for Years

A law forces people in federal prisons to file grievances before they can sue in court. But less than 2% of filings are granted.

Palestinians protest in Gaza over prisoner treatment in Israeli jails

Dozens of Palestinians, relatives of prisoners held in Israeli jails, staged a demonstration in Gaza City on Monday to protest the treatment of detainees and call on the Internatio...

Brickbat: From Guard to Inmate

Francisco Izayas Castillo, a former jail guard in Santa Clara County, California, was sentenced to 45 days in jail after… The post Brickbat: From Guard to Inmate appeared first on...

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Prisoner numbers at record high despite 600 releases in six months

Numerous attempts to address overcrowding have failed to make a long-term impact and the population has reached critical levels.

Over a thousand Palestinians from Gaza held in Israeli detention without charge

A controversial law allows Israel to hold Palestinians in prison without charge or trial. Israel says it's a necessary for security, but rights groups say it leaves detainees in a...

Mentally ill prisoner (70s) loses eye after being stabbed with pen by cellmate

Prison authorities forced to house two mentally ill prisoners together due to acute overcrowding

Heatwave makes conditions 'inhumane', say inmates at overcrowded Paris suburb prison

A damp towel hangs from a barred window, a fan churns the muggy air: Inmates at the overcrowded Villepinte prison outside Paris say enduring a heatwave that has stifled France in r...

Labour to free waves of killers and rapists early: Criminals guilty of the most serious offences will now be released ju...

As part of a scheme to free up prison space, even those jailed for more than a decade will get out early (pictured: one of the first prisoners released under this scheme in 2024).