Entries from Byline Portal tagged with 'Prisoner's Rights'
With Pussy Riot Moving To Penal Colonies, Misery Of Russian Prison Camps Gains Fresh Focus
by Daisy Sindelar, Radio Free Europe, Czech Republic - Former prisoners and rights activists say that inmates are still subjected to unhealthy conditions, a complete absence of privacy, and a brutal social hierarchy in which younger or more vulnerable convicts...
Saakashvili Faces Tough Challenge
by Daisy Sindelar, Radio Free Europe, Czech Republic - It's a contest that will determine the political future of Georgia. But for many, it has come down to one painful issue -- anger over an unfolding prison abuse scandal and...
One Chechen's Cry From A Russian Jail -- 'Do These People Have Hearts?'
by Amina Umarova, Radio Free Europe, Czech Republic - "The problem with the European Court of Human Rights is that all cases of this type take a very long time to be processed... For example, Imran's complaint was filed in...
Chicago's Dark Legacy of Police Torture
by Liliana Segura, The Nation, USA - At the Area 2 Violent Crimes Unit, Police Commander Jon Burge had overseen and participated in the systemic torture of an untold number of African-American men, dating back to the early 1970s. They...
Georgia: A Look at Democratization’s Dark Side
by Molly Corso, EurasiaNet, USA - Georgia may be a democratization leader among formerly Soviet states, but it also has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world -- 531 prisoners per every 100,000 people....
DRC: Behind the (Prison) Walls
by Caroline Gluck, Oxfam Conflict & Emergencies, UK - According to a UN report last year, an estimated 51 million people, or three quarters of the population in Congo, have no access to safe drinking water....
Go to Trial: Crash the Justice System
by Michelle Alexander, New York Times, USA - The system of mass incarceration depends almost entirely on the cooperation of those it seeks to control. If everyone charged with crimes suddenly exercised his constitutional rights, there would not be enough...
Appalling Conditions in Latin America’s Prisons
by Denise Tomasini-Joshi, Miami Herald, USA - In Honduras people can spend years detained without conviction. According to the latest government figures, around 50 percent of the entire prison population is awaiting trial. In Peru the figure is around 60...
How to Stop Torture
by Karen Tse, TED, USA - Political prisoners aren't the only ones being tortured -- the vast majority of judicial torture happens in ordinary cases, even in 'functioning' legal systems. Social activist Karen Tse shows how we can, and should,...
'Do Not Forget Us'
by Claude Mangin, Pambazuka, Kenya - Enaama Asfari’s persecution by Moroccan authorities, recounted here by his wife Claude Mangin, illustrates the horrible extent to which the occupying power will go to quash Sahrawi resistance. But true freedom fighters will not...
Freedom Rider: Prison Slave Labor
by Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report, USA - The prison and jail system is perfecting its methods of extracting free labor. Perhaps the system ought to be called the new slavery....
Prisoners Strike against Torture in California Prisons
by Marjorie Cohn, Marjorie Cohn, USA - For more than two weeks, inmates at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison have been on a hunger strike to protest torturous conditions in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) there. Prisoners have been held...
Guantanamo As Prison and Courtroom: Is a White House Policy Unraveling or Coming Together?
by Dafna Linzer, ProPublica, USA - The news today that the Obama administration has decided to go forward with new military at Guantanamo—as former President Bush had done—will test its commitment to a two-track policy and Obama’s first promise as...
Enough Already: Close Gitmo
by Frida Berrigan, OtherWords, USA - Two years later, President Obama hasn't kept his promise to shut the Guantanamo prison....
Georgia Prison Strike: A Hidden Labor Force Resists
by Michelle Chen, In These Times, USA - Last week a diverse group of nonviolent protesters across Georgia stood up for their rights, calling for decent wages, better social services and respect for their civil liberties....
Protective Custody: Prison Moms, in their Own Words
by Cheryl Hanna-Truscott, Yes!, USA - There is a powerful ripple effect when sending formerly incarcerated mothers back into the world after participating in a prison nursery program: healthier moms raising securely attached babies, who have the foundation to grow...
From Tuskegee to Guatemala Via Nuremberg
by Amy Goodman, Truthdig, USA - We need to ask what “informed consent” means inside a prison, or in a poor community when money is used as an incentive to “volunteer” for research....
The World’s Forgotten: Detainees by the Millions are Languishing in Misery
by Jo Baker, Jakarta Globe, Indonesia - As the United Nations’ top investigator into torture and punishment prepares to end his term this year, he has focused on a group he has long called the globe’s “most vulnerable” to...
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