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Day: December 7, 2024

Drug Smuggling and Money Laundering in HM Prison Lindholme

Drug Smuggling and Money Laundering in HM Prison Lindholme

Dmytro YagunovEuropeInformal prisoner hierarchiesPrevention of torturePrison and street gangsPrison hierarchiesPrison subcultureStaffUK
yagunov07.12.202407.12.2024

A group of drug smugglers and money launderers – including a prison officer, multiple inmates and their relatives – have…

The Phenomenon of Informal Prison Hierarchies and the Simulacrum of Prison Subculture in Contemporary Power Relations

The Phenomenon of Informal Prison Hierarchies and the Simulacrum of Prison Subculture in Contemporary Power Relations

Dmytro YagunovExpertsInformal prisoner hierarchiesPrevention of torturePrison and street gangsPrison hierarchiesPrison subculture
yagunov07.12.202407.12.2024
The Prison Gang as a «Brand» (an Overview of Informal Prison Hierarchies in Modern Prison Systems)

The Prison Gang as a «Brand» (an Overview of Informal Prison Hierarchies in Modern Prison Systems)

Dmytro YagunovExpertsInformal prisoner hierarchiesPrevention of torturePrison and street gangsPrison hierarchiesPrison subculture
yagunov07.12.202407.12.2024

The paper is devoted to the study of prison gangs as the main form of organized crime in many foreign…

A Simulacrum of the Prison Subculture in the Practices of the ECtHR and the CPT

A Simulacrum of the Prison Subculture in the Practices of the ECtHR and the CPT

CPTECHREuropeExpertsInformal prisoner hierarchiesPrevention of torturePrison and street gangsPrison hierarchiesPrison subculture
yagunov07.12.202407.12.2024

Taking into account the social consequences caused by imprisonment, prisons and other total institutions cannot be considered only as formal…

Gergely Fliegauf: A Short Genealogy of Prison Hierarchy in Hungary in the 1980s

Gergely Fliegauf: A Short Genealogy of Prison Hierarchy in Hungary in the 1980s

EuropeExpertsHungaryInformal prisoner hierarchiesPrevention of torturePrison and street gangsPrison hierarchiesPrison subculture
yagunov07.12.202407.12.2024

We are pleased to present a short overview of the genealogy of prison hierarchy in Hungary in the 1980s by…

Baseline Study into Criminal Subculture in Prisons in  Moldova

Baseline Study into Criminal Subculture in Prisons in Moldova

Dmytro YagunovEuropeExpertsInformal prisoner hierarchiesMoldovaPost-Soviet StatesPrevention of torturePrison and street gangsPrison hierarchiesPrison subculture
yagunov07.12.202407.12.2024

Treatment or Punishment has noted a ‘longstanding feature’ of the Moldovan prison system – a well-established informal hierarchy and subculture…

A Country Based on a Prison Subculture

A Country Based on a Prison Subculture

Dmytro YagunovInformal prisoner hierarchiesPost-Soviet StatesPrevention of torturePrison and street gangsPrison hierarchiesPrison subcultureRussia
yagunov07.12.202407.12.2024

As of today, the relations between the Ukrainian and Russian professional criminal worlds and the respective informal prison hierarchies remain…

Volodymyr Meliukhov: Ukraine Needs New European Prisons with New Staff Oriented to European Values

Volodymyr Meliukhov: Ukraine Needs New European Prisons with New Staff Oriented to European Values

Dmytro YagunovEuropeExpertsInformal prisoner hierarchies
yagunov07.12.202407.12.2024

I am pleased to present to the esteemed audience the opinions of a practitioner with extensive experience in the penitentiary…

D. v. Latvia: Ill-Treatment of a Member of a Lower Informal Caste in Prison in the Absence of Physical Violence

D. v. Latvia: Ill-Treatment of a Member of a Lower Informal Caste in Prison in the Absence of Physical Violence

CPTECHREuropeLatviaPost-Soviet StatesPrevention of torturePrison and street gangsPrison hierarchiesPrison subculture
yagunov07.12.202407.12.2024

D. v. Latvia: Ill-Treatment of a Member of a Lower Informal Caste in Prison in the Absence of Physical Violence…

Guatemala Opens Renovated Supermax Prison to Combat Gangs

Guatemala Opens Renovated Supermax Prison to Combat Gangs

Barrio 18Dmytro YagunovGuatemalaInformal prisoner hierarchiesLa Mara SalvatruchaMara 18MS-13Prevention of torturePrison and street gangsPrison hierarchiesPrison subcultureSouth America
yagunov07.12.202407.12.2024

The president of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, inaugurated a renovated maximum-security prison this Tuesday after it was reclaimed from the control…

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