‘Punished For Being Poor:’ Most Prisoners in Madagascar Are Pretrial Detainees
55 percent of the nation's prison population - around 11,000 people - were awaiting trial as of October 2017 despite ...
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Prison Labor is Modern Slavery
Thousands of inmates across the US protest over 'prison slavery' - the convict leasing of the 21st-century. Like in the ...
Turkey Is Building 50 New Prisons For Gulenists
The Turkish authorities are building more than 50 new prisons to accommodate expected new arrests of members of the Gulen ...
Turkey To Free 3,000 Criminals To Make Space For Purge Victims
Turkey is preparing to release from jail hundreds of individuals convicted of petty crimes to make room for people arrested ...
This Is How My Cellmate Is Tortured In Turkey
It was 3 o’clock at night. I woke up with the loud knock on my door. I put a kiss ...
Chicago Turks Protest Book Ban In Turkey’s Prisons
Turkey's prominent novelist and journalist Ahmet Altan is behind bars nearly a year. He is facing 3 aggravated life sentences ...
Lives Upended, Lost After Mistreatment in Turkey’s Prisons
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