Prisons

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Virus response scheme sees 33 prisoners released
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UK
Posted
27 April 2020
El Salvador gangs 'taking advantage of pandemic'
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Latin America & Caribbean
Posted
27 April 2020
Where social distancing is impossible
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Latin America & Caribbean
Posted
27 April 2020
Unchained. Audio, 28 minutes
Poet Brenda Birungi shares personal accounts of criminal justice that's failing women.
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BBC Radio 4
Available for over a year
Early release for Scots prisoners over virus fears
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Scotland
Posted
21 April 2020
Mobiles for prisoners after visiting suspended
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Highlands & Islands
Posted
17 April 2020
Minister faces legal action over virus in prisons
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UK Politics
Posted
17 April 2020
Trump's ex-lawyer 'to be released from prison'
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US & Canada
Posted
17 April 2020
Lights Out. Series 2, Prison Sentences. Audio, 28 minutes
The things people say about prison.
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BBC Radio 4
Available for over a year
Lights Out. Series 2, Prison Sentences. Audio, 28 minutes
The things people say about prison.
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BBC Radio 4
Available for over a year
Siberian jail ablaze after inmates riot
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Europe
Posted
11 April 2020
Sex offender is first inmate to die with coronavirus
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Scotland
Posted
10 April 2020
The Documentary Podcast. Extreme measures. Audio, 26 minutes
Can extremists who murder people like Jack Merritt ever be de-radicalised?
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BBC World Service
Available for over a year
Prison families fear 'death sentences' over virus
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Hampshire & Isle of Wight
Posted
8 April 2020
100 prisoners to be released by Monday
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Northern Ireland
Posted
3 April 2020
Almost a quarter of prison staff absent from work
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Scotland
Posted
2 April 2020
Prisoners to be temporarily freed due to Covid-19
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Northern Ireland
Posted
30 March 2020
Crowded jail 'has insatiable mental health need'
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Hereford & Worcester
Posted
27 March 2020
Inmates could be freed to ease virus jail pressures
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UK
Posted
25 March 2020
Prison visits suspended during outbreak
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Scotland
Posted
24 March 2020
At least 23 killed in Colombia prison unrest
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Latin America & Caribbean
Posted
23 March 2020
US jails begin releasing prisoners amid pandemic
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US & Canada
Posted
19 March 2020
Concern over segregated trans women prisoners
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Bristol
Posted
18 March 2020
Safety improving at one of UK's largest prisons
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Wales
Posted
17 March 2020