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Yesterday, I had the great honour and privilege of speaking with staff from the Prison Service of the Republic of…
In early June 2025, the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) carried out an ad hoc visit to…
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…
O.K., is accused of being in the Khmelnytskyi Pre-trial Detention Center for a long period of time, on suspicion of…
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…
Treatment or Punishment has noted a ‘longstanding feature’ of the Moldovan prison system – a well-established informal hierarchy and subculture…
As of today, the relations between the Ukrainian and Russian professional criminal worlds and the respective informal prison hierarchies remain…
D. v. Latvia: Ill-Treatment of a Member of a Lower Informal Caste in Prison in the Absence of Physical Violence…
