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Thousands infected with COVID-19 in Thai prisons Thousands infected with COVID-19 in Thai prisons THAILAND: People held in Thailand’s overcrowded prisons and detention facilities are at grave risk from COVID-19 outbreaks, Human Rights Watch said today (May 13). Photo: Bangkok Post file. The Thai authorities should immediately act to ensure that prisoners and detainees have access to adequate protective measures and health care. The authorities should swiftly reduce overcrowding by releasing p...

SHARE Turkey’s prison population has more than doubled in recent years, while the government jailed political opponents, lawyers and journalists at an increasing rate. Recent figures from Turkstat, the government’s statistics agency, showed there were 291,546 prisoners at the end of 2019 compared to 120,194 a decade earlier. Since President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AKP party came to power in 2002, there has been nearly a four-fold rise in the number of incarcerations. Inmate numbers have r...

Where Incarceration Isn’t the Answer Where Incarceration Isn’t the Answer Where Incarceration Isn’t the Answer Frustrations with the U.S. prison system have prompted a global search for alternatives. Yet the solution might not be as simple as “be like Scandinavia.” Winter 2021 Nov 3, 2020 Despite declining incarceration rates in some states, the United States still outpaces the rest of the world when it comes to putting human beings in cages. The U.S. is home to approximately 20% of a...