Tag: prisons
India wants to empty its prisons as it approaches the 75th anniversary of its independence
In India, the government wants to release as many prisoners on trial as possible. They would be some 350,000 languishing behind bars without even having been sentenced. As the 75th…
Russia will recruit prisoners in prisons… Here is the reward for those who come back alive!
Russia is allegedly preparing to recruit prisoners to fight in Ukraine with the promise of around $3,100. It was claimed that if the prisoners returned alive after six months, their…
The alarm: SiS homes are starting to look like prisons
The union warns that the so-called Sis homes where young people are being forcibly cared for are increasingly beginning to resemble prisons and demand that care be improved. A recent…
Cronyism, overcrowded prisons: why only a third of prisoners work
Wake up, 8 o’clock. As soon as his eyes were open, Mounir found his cell “armored with boxes”. No move on the horizon: for the almost forty-something sentenced in 2015…
the cholera epidemic in prisons worries the opposition
At least six inmates have died of diarrheal disease in New Bell prison, Douala, since March. Among them, an activist from the Movement for the Renaissance of Cameroon (MRC), who…