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#[[St. Kitts and Nevis]] 607 - [http://issat.dcaf.ch/Learn/Resource-Library/Country-Profiles/Saint-Kitts-and-Nevis-Country-Profile The islands serve as a transhipment point in the transnational drug trade] | #[[St. Kitts and Nevis]] 607 - [http://issat.dcaf.ch/Learn/Resource-Library/Country-Profiles/Saint-Kitts-and-Nevis-Country-Profile The islands serve as a transhipment point in the transnational drug trade] | ||
#Turkmenistan 583 - High rate due to ruthless punishment of any alternative political or religious expression. Presumably, prisons also hold many people who forcibly disappeared. Torture to extract “confessions” and incriminate others is common in spite of recent anti-torture legislation. Sources describe the use of dogs, batons, and subsequent loss of consciousness, damage to the kidneys, and the inability to walk. So-called kartsers or cylindrical dark solitary confinement cells can be the location of people before or after secret trials, and family members often do not receive information whatsoever. | #Turkmenistan 583 - High rate due to ruthless punishment of any alternative political or religious expression. Presumably, prisons also hold many people who forcibly disappeared. Torture to extract “confessions” and incriminate others is common in spite of recent anti-torture legislation. Sources describe the use of dogs, batons, and subsequent loss of consciousness, damage to the kidneys, and the inability to walk. So-called kartsers or cylindrical dark solitary confinement cells can be the location of people before or after secret trials, and family members often do not receive information whatsoever. | ||
#Virgin Islands (U.S.) 542 - [http://edition.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/06/09/virgin.islands.prisons/index.html Justice Department officials are so fed up with a drug-infested, violence-wracked prison in the U.S. Virgin Islands] they did something they had never done before -- they went to court and asked to entirely take over operation of the institution. The request for a federal judge in St. Croix to appoint a federal receiver came as stabbings, firearms and filth mounted at the Golden Grove Adult Correctional and Detention Facility. "The deplorable conditions at Golden Grove continue to deteriorate after years of noncompliance with court orders," said Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez. "This agency has left us with no choice but to seek the drastic measure of receivership," Perez said. "Receivership is the last resort," said U.S. Attorney for the Virgin Islands Ronald Sharpe. "We arrive at this juncture only after spending the last 25 years exhausting every other viable alternative," he said. Justice Department officials said the prisoners live in unsafe, filthy and hazardous conditions without required medical and mental health care. | #Virgin Islands (U.S.) 542 - [http://edition.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/06/09/virgin.islands.prisons/index.html Justice Department officials are so fed up with a drug-infested, violence-wracked prison in the U.S. Virgin Islands] they did something they had never done before -- they went to court and asked to entirely take over operation of the institution. The request for a federal judge in St. Croix to appoint a federal receiver came as stabbings, firearms and filth mounted at the Golden Grove Adult Correctional and Detention Facility. "The deplorable conditions at Golden Grove continue to deteriorate after years of noncompliance with court orders," said Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez. "This agency has left us with no choice but to seek the drastic measure of receivership," Perez said. "Receivership is the last resort," said U.S. Attorney for the Virgin Islands Ronald Sharpe. "We arrive at this juncture only after spending the last 25 years exhausting every other viable alternative," he said. Justice Department officials said the prisoners live in unsafe, filthy and hazardous conditions without required medical and mental health care. | ||
#El Salvador 541 - [https://www.insightcrime.org/news/analysis/unbelievable-hell-inside-el-salvador-prisons/ A plague of fungal skin diseases, untreated deadly infections, constant threats of tuberculosis epidemics], people fed with their own hands, extreme overcrowding and children locked up with their mothers. This is what the human rights observers reported during the first few months of the extraordinary measures implemented across prisons for El Salvador’s gang members. - The Attorney General’s Office is the only institution that has access to these prisons under these extraordinary measures. The government has decided to deny access to the public, including the International Committee of the Red Cross. - “The fact that they are served food in their hands is…inhumane. The overcrowding…all in the same cell for 24 hours! It’s like…the torture facilities of the past. You would think that all of that was over. You would think that Hitler was a thing of the past. Once the doors are opened, what will we see?” - The statement was from Raquel Caballero, of El Salvador’s Attorney General’s Office for Human Rights (Procuradora para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos – PDDH), who was left speechless as she tried to describe what she saw in the prisons where the government’s extraordinary measures have been implemented. - In April 2016, the government implemented extraordinary measures for seven Salvadoran prisons where only gang members are detained. The aim was to isolate certain prisoners with the understanding that they were the momentum driving gang criminality. In order to do this, the government eliminated family visitation; confined prisoners to their cells 24 hours a day; halted the delivery of hygiene products like soap, toilet paper and toothpaste; suspended judicial proceedings and restricted maximum-security prisoners from being released to hospitals. restricted street clothing and electronics.... | |||
#Cuba 510 | #Cuba 510 - | ||
#Guam (U.S.) 469 | #Guam (U.S.) 469 | ||
#Russian Federation 450 | #Russian Federation 450 | ||