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The President of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT), Alan Mitchell,…
France will open its first prison dedicated to isolating the country’s top 100 drug lords in July as part of…
The organisational setup of criminal networks is very diverse. Some are strictly hierarchical, while others are loose, decentralised and informal.…
Following a visit to Ukraine in 2023 by a delegation of the CPT, one of the violations identified was the…
05.10.2013 at approximately 8 hours. 30 min. the convict G., being on the second floor of the shop no. 2…
On 03 December 2024, in Odesa, investigators served a notice of suspicion to six members of a criminal group who…
A group of drug smugglers and money launderers – including a prison officer, multiple inmates and their relatives – have…
Taking into account the social consequences caused by imprisonment, prisons and other total institutions cannot be considered only as formal…
We are pleased to present a short overview of the genealogy of prison hierarchy in Hungary in the 1980s by…
Treatment or Punishment has noted a ‘longstanding feature’ of the Moldovan prison system – a well-established informal hierarchy and subculture…
