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Prison cell, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
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Suicides and Deaths in Prison: National Report on the Rights of Persons Deprived of their Personal Liberty 2025

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Composition of the National Guarantor of the rights of persons deprived of personal liberty 2024

The Justice and Correction Section of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) supports a gardening project in the local jail in Sevare, which allows prisoners to grow their own food and to garnish a small income from the sale of that which they produce. Here, the hands of two prisoners who participate in the project. Their faces are not shown in order to respect their privacy and protect their identity.
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The Council of Europe Anti-Torture Committee publishes a report on its visit to four closed migrants’ pre-repatriation centres in Italy

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Report of the Council of Europe's Anti-Torture Committee (CPT) on the "ad hoc" visit to Italy CPT/Inf (2024) 34

fence with barbed wire
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health

Health Risks and Detention during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The case S.M. v. Italy

Nimba county prison inmate looks through a window of a cell, Liberia, 2008
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Council of Europe: overcrowding in prison remains an issue

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Failure to Provide Adequate Mental Healthcare to Mentally Ill Detainees: Community-Based Care as an Alternative?

human rights

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Italy must respect dignity and humanity of detention in Cospito case, March 2023

Nimba county prison inmate looks through a window of a cell, Liberia, 2008
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WHO reveals one-third of prisoners in Europe suffer mental health disorders

Hands holding prison bars
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FRA: How to better protect children in criminal proceedings

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European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA): Criminal detention conditions database updated

Overcrowded prisons
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Council of Europe

Prison overcrowding: the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture calls for setting a limit to the number of inmates in every prison and promoting non-custodial measures

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Death penalty should be abolished: Mass executions in Saudi Arabia and Egypt

UN expert: States should ensure accountability, transparency and access to sites of secret detention
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UN expert: States should ensure accountability, transparency and access to sites of secret detention

UN torture prevention body calls for vaccination programmes for people deprived of liberty
COVID-19

Vaccination programmes for people deprived of liberty