Biased laws and poverty driving huge rise in female prisoners – report
First such study finds laws on abortion, debt and dress help increase rate of women being jailed twice as fast as for men Poverty, abuse...
Category : Prisons
Fears grow for health of social media influencer arrested on live TV in Sierra Leone
Hawa Hunt’s detention a month ago was politically motivated, say daughter and rights groups, who also raise concerns about her treatment in jail Fears are...
Latin America’s rise in tuberculosis linked to imprisonment rates
Study warns region’s exponential rise in incarceration is fuelling the disease, with cases increasing by 19% between 2015 and 2022 High incarceration rates in Latin...
Guards and police released after being held hostage in Ecuadorian prisons
Fifty-seven law enforcement officers held in six prisons amid sharp rise in gang violence ahead of election Fifty guards and seven police officers have been...
Gang members locked women in cells before Honduras prison riot fire
Armed people went into rival gang’s cell block, opened fire and doused survivors in flammable liquid, officer says after 46 killed Gang members at a...
‘Monstrous murder’: 41 women killed in Honduras prison riot
Some women were burned to death in uprising blamed on crackdown on illicit activities inside of the country’s prisons At least 41 women have been...
El Salvador moves suspected gang members to 40,000-capacity ‘megaprison’
Around 2,000 inmates transferred on Friday as part of president’s crime crackdown El Salvador’s government has moved thousands of suspected gang members to a newly...
