Volodymyr Meliukhov: Ukraine Needs New European Prisons with New Staff Oriented to European Values
I am pleased to present to the esteemed audience the opinions of a practitioner with extensive experience in the penitentiary…
Category: Europe
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
D. v. Latvia: Ill-Treatment of a Member of a Lower Informal Caste in Prison in the Absence of Physical Violence…
Head of the Prison Assisted in Organizing a Criminal ‘Meeting’ in Prison
Dmytro YagunovEuropeInformal prisoner hierarchiesPost-Soviet StatesPrevention of torturePrison and street gangsPrison hierarchiesPrison subcultureUkraine
Head of correctional colony detained for assisting in organizing criminal ‘meeting’ on the territory of the institution in Cherkasy region…
S.P. and Others v. Russia: Reflection of the Problem of Prison Subculture in the ECHR Case Law
Dmytro YagunovEuropeInformal prisoner hierarchiesPost-Soviet StatesPrevention of torturePrison and street gangsPrison hierarchiesPrison subcultureRussia
The importance of the case of S.P. and Others v. Russia cannot be overstated. In addition to the fact that the European…
D.F. v. Latvia: Violence and Threat of Violence against Vulnerable Categories of Prisoners
CPTDmytro YagunovECHREuropeInformal prisoner hierarchiesLatviaPrevention of torturePrison and street gangsPrison hierarchiesPrison subculture
The applicant alleged that while in prison he had been subjected to repeated physical violence by other prisoners. The applicant…
The Prison Officers’ Association: Staff Facing Unprecedented Levels of Threats from Gangs
Dmytro YagunovEuropeInformal prisoner hierarchiesPrevention of torturePrison and street gangsPrison hierarchiesPrison subcultureScotlandUK
In a letter to the Justice Committee, the Prison Officers’ Association (POA) said they faced “challenging and dangerous” conditions in…
Ukraine: a Prisoner Attempted to Kill Another Prisoner According to the Informal Prisoner Code
Dmytro YagunovEuropeInformal prisoner hierarchiesPost-Soviet StatesPrevention of torturePrison and street gangsPrison hierarchiesPrison subcultureUkraine
Under the procedural supervision of the Vinnytsia Regional Prosecutor’s Office, a convict was served a notice of suspicion of preparing…
Prison Subculture in Moldova’s Prisons (the CPT)
CPTDmytro YagunovEuropeInformal prisoner hierarchiesMoldovaPost-Soviet StatesPrevention of torturePrison and street gangsPrison hierarchiesPrison subculture
13. Moldovan prisons have for decades been plagued by informal prisoner hierarchies as a key feature of prison subculture and the related problem of inter-prisoner…
Prison Subculture in Ukrainian Prisons: Svitlovodsk City District Court of Kirovohrad Region. Сase No. 941/849/21
Dmytro YagunovEuropeInformal prisoner hierarchiesPost-Soviet StatesPrevention of torturePrison and street gangsPrison hierarchiesPrison subcultureUkraine
While serving his sentence in the Romenska Correctional Colony № 56, and since 08.12.2017 in the Petrivska Correctional Colony №…
Prisoners Being Used as Drug Guinea Pigs by Gang Bosses in Irish Jail
Dmytro YagunovEuropeInformal prisoner hierarchiesIrelandPrevention of torturePrison and street gangsPrison hierarchiesPrison subculture
Prisoners being used as drug guinea pigs by gang bosses in Irish jail as lags ‘have no idea’ what’s in…