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In Sweden, offenders as young as 13 will be placed in youth prisons starting next summer. Some time ago, the…
A prison riot at the Artik Correctional Facility in the town of Artik in Shirak Province, sparked by the seizure…
On October 22, 2025, Guatemala passed a new anti-gang law aimed at giving the government more resources to fight the…
The Guatemalan government has put forward a new bill aimed at hitting gangs harder, with steeper sentences and a dedicated…
Police say 13 inmates and one prison guard have been killed and another 14 people injured in clashes between rival…
“Criminal subculture” is an antisocial, instigating phenomenon that not only differs from, but also opposes the general culture, the dominant…
In this study, we raise the issues of the origins of Soviet criminal and prison subculture, the corresponding informal prisoner…
Walls several meters high, cells under constant surveillance, bulletproof glass partitions separating visitors from prisoners: In Vanden le Vieux, a…
In this expert blog, PRI’s Tinatin Uplisashvili explores the persistence of informal prison hierarchies across post-Soviet penitentiary systems, structures that…
This monograph was prepared and published during my work and research at the University of Tübingen as part of the…
