Tag: prisons
Visitor ban emergency solution to overcrowded prisons
full screen 85 percent of the country’s prisons have been overcrowded during the first half of 2023. Stock image. Photo: Per Danielsson/TT The situation with increasingly overcrowded detention centers around…
Visitor ban emergency solution to overcrowded prisons
In Växjö, for example, a decision was made to temporarily stop visits for relatives for three weeks in June, when the visiting rooms have been used as living rooms. —…
Increased violence in full women’s prisons
full screen Women’s institution in Hinseberg. Archive image. Photo: Fredrik Sandberg/TT More and more incidents where threats and violence occur are reported in Swedish women’s prisons, statistics from the Correctional…
La France insoumise wants to make prisons “mixed”, by Dora Moutot and Marguerite Stern
This June 23, the parliamentary group of insubordinate France tabled an amendment asking to “improve the care of transgender people in prison”. So far, no problem. Men who call themselves…
‘Abuses in women’s prisons much more extensive than previously thought’
“Since then, many new cases have come to us,” said Oosterhagen in the RTL program. “And quite interesting is that the women who have reported also want to convince us…
From dirty talk to oral sex: serious abuses in women’s prisons appear to be structural, inspectorate calls for action now
These incidents are not isolated events, it now appears. For the investigation, the Inspectorate spoke to 66 respondents, mainly employees and prisoners. Nearly half of them reported dishonest behavior by…
The country’s prisons are full
Suspects are put in visiting rooms Published: Just now The number of people arrested and detained is increasing, but there are not enough places. Now it is almost completely full…
The number of detainees in French prisons reaches a new record
73,080: the number of detainees in French prisons on April 1. This is the third month in a row where the number of detainees is on the rise in French…
one dead and seven injured in clashes between rival gangs in prisons in Honduras
” On Saturday, simultaneously, in several “maximum security” penal centers, clashes took place between prisoners “, writing El Hondurandiario. The gangs involved are MS-13 and Pandilla 18. The newspaper reports…
Sis warns of youth prisons: Can end up in adult institutions
At a youth home in Kalix with the highest security class, which is run by the State Board of Institutions (Sis), SVT Agenda meets a young man who has been…