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ISIS Forces Kill Iraqi Shiite Prisoners after Iraqi Guards Flee by Derek Gilna Iraqi Shiites unfortunate enough to be confined in Badush prison, 25 kilometers from Mosul, Iraq, were summarily slaughtered by ISIS forces after their Iraqi prison guards fled the advancing insurgents.  Lieutenant Colonel Ali Mohammed, who apparently served …
Publication • August 3, 2016
World Prison Population List (10th Ed), ICPS King’s College, 2013 World Prison Population List (tenth edition) Roy Walmsley Introduction This tenth edition of the World Prison Population List gives details of the number of prisoners held in 222 independent countries and dependent territories. It shows the differences in the level …
Publication • August 3, 2016
World Prison Population List (6th Ed), ICPS King’s College, 2005 World Prison Population List (sixth edition) International Centre for Prison Studies Roy Walmsley Introduction The World Prison Population List gives details of the number of prisoners held in 211 independent countries and dependent territories. It shows the differences in the …
Joint study on global practices in relation to secret detention, Human Rights Council, 2010 ADVANCE UNEDITED VERSION Distr. GENERAL A/HRC/13/42 26 January 2010 Original: ENGLISH HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Thirteenth session Agenda item 3 Joint study on global practices in relation to secret detention in the context of countering terrorism of …
World Female Imprisonment List (2nd Ed), ICPS University of Essex, 2012 World Female Imprisonment List (second edition) (Women and girls in penal institutions, including pre-trial detainees/remand prisoners) Roy Walmsley This second edition of the World Female Imprisonment List shows the number of women and girls held in penal institutions, as …
Publication • August 3, 2016
World Prison Population List (8th Ed), ICPS King’s College, 2008 World Prison Population List (eighth edition) International Centre for Prison Studies Roy Walmsley Introduction This eighth edition of the World Prison Population List gives details of the number of prisoners held in 218 independent countries and dependent territories. It shows …
United Kingdom: Queen Elizabeth Unveils Judicial and Prison Reform Shakeup by On May 18, 2016, Queen Elizabeth announced a plan – touted as the “biggest shakeup” in criminal justice reform since Victorian times – that will provide more self-governance to UK prisons and allow prisoners greater access to technology. The …
Prisoners in Chinese Labor Camps Send Pleas for Help in Exported Products by Joe Watson Chinese prisoners have used a novel, if not entirely secure, method of reporting human rights abuses, by stashing handwritten notes in the products they are forced to make inside prison sweatshops. Accounts of former prisoners …
Amnesty International: Sudanese Prisoners Housed in Shipping Containers by On May 27, 2016, Amnesty International reported that the South Sudan was using repurposed shipping containers to house prisoners at a detention site in Gorom. Amnesty’s Regional Director for East Africa, the Horn and the Great Lakes, Muthoni Wanyeki, warned that …
Saudi executions: beyond the numbers by By Halim Shebaya, openDemocracy This article was originally published by openDemocracy on January 8, 2016. Copyright, openDemocracy. Reprinted with permission. https://www.opendemocracy.net/arab-awakening/halim-shebaya/saudi-executions-beyond-numbers  The inability to recognise an affront to the rule of law, regardless of the identity of the perpetrator, reveals the region’s dire state of affairs, politically, morally, …
World Female Imprisonment List (3rd Ed), WPB ICPR, 2015 World Female Imprisonment List third edition Women and girls in penal institutions, including pre-trial detainees/remand prisoners Roy Walmsley Introduction This third edition of the World Female Imprisonment List shows the number of women and girls held in penal institutions in 219 …
Article • February 2, 2016 • from PLN February, 2016
Human Rights Groups Condemn Worsening Conditions in Venezuelan Prisons by Matthew Clarke As long ago as 1997, the advocacy group Human Rights Watch issued a report that characterized conditions in Venezuelan prisons as “violat[ing] both Venezuelan law and international human rights standards.” The group pointed to dangerous overcrowding as perhaps …
Article • November 2, 2015
Revealed: The boom and bust of the CIA's secret torture sites by Crofton Black Revealed: The boom and bust of the CIA's secret torture sites by Crofton Black and Sam Raphael In spring 2003 an unnamed official at CIA headquarters in Langley sat down to compose a memo. It was …
Prison: America’s Most Vile Export? by Baz Dreisinger Prison: America’s Most Vile Export? The U.S. incarceration problem is now the world’s to solve. by Baz Dreisinger Behind the bars of a prison in Brazil, the federal agent on duty sidled up to me. “You’re getting a good report, yes?” he …
Article • October 16, 2015
Iran Orders Execution Survivor Hospitalized and Re-Hanged Once Well Enough by Mark Wilson Iran Orders Execution Survivor Hospitalized and Re-Hanged Once Well Enough by Mark Wilson “The horrific prospect of this man facing a second hanging, after having gone through the whole ordeal already once, merely underlines the cruelty and …
UN Commission Approves Mandela Rules on Treatment of Prisoners by David Fathi UN Commission Approves Mandela Rules on Treatment of Prisoners by David Fathi [1] May 22, 2015 was a milestone in the global movement for prisoners’ rights. On that day, the United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal …
Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli Jails Smuggle Sperm to Impregnate Wives by Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli Jails Smuggle Sperm to Impregnate Wives by Matt Clarke Authorities in Israel concede there is little they can do to stop a growing practice among Palestinian prisoners: smuggling their sperm out of prison in order …
A Roadmap to Justice for CIA Torture, Human Rights Watch, 2015 R I G H T S NO MORE EXCUSES W A T C H A Roadmap to Justice for CIA Torture H U M A N No More Excuses A Roadmap to Justice for CIA Torture Copyright © 2015 …
Prison Violence in Brazil Connected to Abuse, Gangs, Overcrowding by Prison Violence in Brazil Connected to Abuse, Gangs, Overcrowding A wave of riots and killings is sweeping inside and outside prisons in Brazil, but authorities and observers differ on whether the violence is the fault of rival gangs competing for …
Article • February 4, 2015 • from PLN February, 2015
United States, Britain Offer Training to “Improve” Prison Conditions in Afghanistan by United States, Britain Offer Training to “Improve” Prison Conditions in Afghanistan While attempting to liberate Afghanistan from the tyranny of the Taliban, the U.S. and Great Britain have given the Afghans incarceration-related tools and training, ostensibly to improve …
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