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Le Maroc reçoit 7.136.000 US Dollars pour réaliser des prisons à l’américaine
Source Tamek veut des prisons américaines pour le Maroc Kiosque360. Le délégué général de l’Administration pénitentiaire et de la réinsertion entame un ambitieux programme de réorganisation des conditions de détention…
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La prison israélienne d’Ofer inspire la France
Source (photo Club des prisonniers palestiniens : La prison israélienne d’Ofer, en Cisjordanie)Ofer, la prison israélienne qui pourrait inspirer la France... Le député Georges Fenech a visité cette semaine la prison d'Ofer,…
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Incarcération totale : L’enfermement solitaire aux États-Unis à l’ère de la prison de masse, par Yasmine Bouagga
SOURCE La vie des idées 24/11/ 2015 Il y a aujourd’hui deux millions de détenus aux États-Unis, avec un recours accru à l’enfermement solitaire de haute sécurité. La violence de…
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Event : Friday 12thAugust at 1pm at Summerhall : “Real-life protagonists of Edinburgh Fringe prison plays to meet public”
Real-life protagonists of Edinburgh Fringe prison plays to meet public The protagonists of two powerful autobiographical prison plays are to come together this Friday 12thAugust at 1pm at Summerhall, where both their plays are being staged, to meet the public. Belgian Jean-Marc Mahy was sent to prison at the age of seventeen and spent almost 20…
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Paul Laverty (writer and key collaborator of Ken Loach) on Jean-Marc Mahy and the theatre play A Man Standing / Un Homme Debout
(photo : Paul Laverty and Ken Loach) (texte écrit au Edinburgh Festival, en anglais, traduction en français voir plus bas) “A Man Standing”, and his name is Jean-Marc. Sometimes a play isn’t just about the piece itself, but what is in your head, and maybe heart, when you cross with it. Over the last…
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“Removal from Association (DC Rule 40) and Temporary Confinement (DC Rule 42) : introduction of Solitary confinement in Britain’s immigration detention centres, “even if it could kill them”.
Source (Picture : Morton Hall Immigration Removal Centre) Immigration centre staff told: Put ‘disobedient’ detainees in solitary confinement – even if it could kill them Exclusive: Revised Government policy described as ‘new charter for cruelty’ Jon Stone Political Correspondent 2 August 2016 People held at Britain’s immigration removal centres can be thrown into solitary confinement against medical advice…
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Bobby Sands 66 Days, a new film on the hungerstrike of Bobby Sands and his 9 comrades
Source Bobby Sands: 66 Days Updated / Aug. 2, 2016 10:40 Bobby Sands: the last days of his life are powerfully portrayed in 66 Days. There are moments of terrible sadness in 66 Days, Brendan J Byrne’s profoundly moving account of Bobby Sands’ hunger strike in the so-called H Blocks of Long Kesh prison. The film alternates between an uneasy sense…
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Guantanamo chez nous ? Fenech (LR) prône un Guantanamo à la française sur l’île de Ré ! French MP calls for ‘new Guantanamo Bay’ for terror suspects !
Source (français) Source (English), see article below Fenech (LR) prône un «Guantanamo à la française» Par AFP — 20 juillet 2016 à 11:01 (mis à jour à 15:27) Georges Fenech à son arrivée au bureau politique du parti Les Républicains le 18 juillet 2016 à Paris Photo FRANCOIS GUILLOT. AFP Le député (Les Républicains) Georges Fenech, président de la commission…
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Belgian Play “A Man Standing” from Jean-Michel Van den Eeyden and Jean-Marc Mahy at Edingburgh International Festival (03 > 14/08)
United Kingdom of Belgium, now in Scotland ! in association with proudly presents – A MAN STANDING – Jean-Michel Van den Eeyden / Jean-Marc Mahy / Stephane Pirard Jean-Marc Mahy entered prison at the age of seventeen. He spent nearly 20 years detained, three of them in solitary confinement. On stage with performer Stephane Pirard,…
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Mumia Abu Jamal on Arthur Johnson : 37 years in solitary confinement (PrisonRadio.org)/ Arthur Johnson 37 jahre ununterbrochen in Isolationshaft (Junge Welt.de)
Source : Prisonradio.org SOLITARY: ARTHUR’S WORLD . ©’16 Mumia Abu-Jamal His name is Arthur Johnson, and he has lived in his cell, in the ‘hole’, for 37 years. You heard me right: 37 years! He was first cast into the Pa. Dept. of Corrections version of hell (officially known as solitary confinement) in December…
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Towards European mini-Guantanamos : “prisons within the prisons for dangerous Islamist prisoners” (See article in The Guardian 13 July 2016)
(photo : Roe House, a prison within the Maghaberry prison in Northern Ireland) Source by Alan Travis A hardcore of proselytising Islamist jihadis inside prisons in England and Wales are so dangerous they need to be isolated in special units in maximum security prisons, an official review into prison extremism has said. The justice secretary,…
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Tortures modernes : le traitement de Salah Abdeslam à Fleury-Merogis en question, par Jean-Yves Nau (trois articles)
(photo Jean-Yves Nau) Salah Abdeslam est-il d’ores et déjà condamné à une mesure «pire que la peine de mort» ? Micro Guantanamo à Fleury-Mérogis ? Remarquable papier dans Le Quotidien du Médecin (Christian Delahaye) ; papier distancié traitant d’un sujet qui déchaînera bientôt quelques passions : les conditions de détention de Salah Abdeslam, 26 ans, dernier membre vivant des commandos terroristes du 13 novembre…