At least six prisoners were killed and 33 wounded during the fight between rival gangs at Caloocan City Jail in the National Capital Region.
Inter-ministerial wrangling over the control of the prison facilities coupled with police brutality and a lack of funding has exacerbated the human rights situation of incarcerated people in the country.
Sami al Amour, who was suffering from a congenital heart problem, died at an Israeli hospital “as a result of the policy and crime of deliberate medical negligence,” the Palestinian Prisoners Club has said.
Britain only cares about being perceived as taking the "moral" high road while maintaining a status quo that harms ethnic minorities.
Qadri Abu Bakr, head of the Palestinian Authority's commission for prisoners, said 1,380 prisoners were to start the strike on Friday in protest of their detention conditions.
The coronavirus cases have been increasing in densely packed Myanmar prisons where many people are held for political reasons.
Chow was released from prison after serving nearly seven months for her role in an unauthorised assembly during anti-government protests in the city in 2019.
The animating logic behind Israel’s punitive carceral system is to weaken Palestinian morale and their ability to organise through unjust imprisonment and disproportionate sentences.
"I can confirm that the Imo State command of the Nigerian Correctional Service was attacked by unknown gunmen in Owerri," Imo state corrections service spokesman James Madugba says, adding that the number of escaped inmates was yet to be confirmed.
Alexey Navalny says he wants the prison holding him outside Moscow to provide him with proper medical care.
Navalny, who is considered a flight risk by authorities, said he is woken eight times per night by guards announcing to a recording camera that he is still in his cell.
The artwork appeared on Monday outside Reading Prison, famous as the location where writer Oscar Wilde served two years for “gross indecency” in the 1890s.
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