Alcala Meco prison
Alcala-Meco prison. There are alike 1000 prisoners here. The squares parallel to the road are Cumplimiento and the ohers Preventive. The swimming pool is the women prison.
Alcala-Meco prison. There are alike 1000 prisoners here. The squares parallel to the road are Cumplimiento and the ohers Preventive. The swimming pool is the women prison.
This prison is about 400 km away from the Basque Country, but there are many basque prisoners here, according to the spanish basque political prisoners dispersion laws.
The cars in the western side are familiars making a visit.
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Basque Political Prisoners, repatriation!
Independence and socialism for the Basque Country
Alcala Meco prison
Alcala-Meco prison. There are alike 1000 prisoners here. The squares parallel to the road are Cumplimiento and the ohers Preventive. The swimming pool is the women prison.
Alcala-Meco prison. There are alike 1000 prisoners here. The squares parallel to the road are Cumplimiento and the ohers Preventive. The swimming pool is the women prison.
This prison is about 400 km away from the Basque Country, but there are many basque prisoners here, according to the spanish basque political prisoners dispersion laws.
The cars in the western side are familiars making a visit.
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Basque Political Prisoners, repatriation!
Independence and socialism for the Basque Country
Alcala Meco prison
Alcala-Meco prison. There are alike 1000 prisoners here. The squares parallel to the road are Cumplimiento and the ohers Preventive. The swimming pool is the women prison.
Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison is on the outskirts of Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe.
The men confined here are held in overcrowded cells, measuring 9m by 4m. Typically speaking there are 25 men per cell. Each day the men are confined to their squalid cells between the hours of 3:30pm and 7:00am. Four to five times a week they are also locked up for the guards lunch break, between the hours of 11:30am and 1:00pm. There are no beds and so the men have to sleep on mats spread out over the crowded cell floor. Some inmates refuse to wash, which results in blankets becoming lice infested. There is a predominance of HIV positive, practising homosexuals within this rat and lice infested prison. The cells are shared with people in the terminal stages of AIDS, Tuberculosis, Herpes and other highly infectious diseases, as well as some prisoners who are mentally ill. Many of the infected prisoners are unable to control their bodily functions, and this results in the cell floor and blankets being contaminated with body fluids; pus, phlegm, blood, urine, faeces. This is in contravention of Article 24 of the International Bill of Human Rights, which covers the state providing a safe environment.
The sanitary conditions they are forced to live under are a terrible threat to their wellbeing. Each month they receive ½ toilet roll and 1 ½ small bars of laundry soap. Every 3 months they receive 25mls of toothpaste. Detergents and disinfectants are issued in such minimal amounts that they are non-effective. A ½ cup of scouring powder (Vim) is issued each week, to clean eating utensils for 140 men.
The prison has only one pair of old, hand-operated hair-clippers. These clippers are infrequently sterilised and are used by all the prisoners, even those with lice and open body sores. On occasion, some prisoners have even used these clippers to remove pubic hair.
There is no hot water for showers in Zimbabwean prisons and so the men are restricted to cold water showers only, even in winter, when the ambient temperature can fall below 0°C. They are provided with small pieces of towel twice a year which soon wear out, and they then have to resort to using pieces of blanket (which may well be infected with lethal diseases) because they are not allowed to supply their own towels.
One small transistor radio is shared amongst 140 prisoners, they have no access to television or any other form of recreation. There are also no public telephones for prisoner use.
It would appear that the attitude of the Zimbabwe prison authorities is that people in prison have no rights and they are in jail to suffer. The concept of rehabilitation for offenders does not exist. Life imprisonment as defined by the Zimbabwe Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act, Chapter 9.07 is "A complete deprivation of personal liberty", however this is in contradiction with guarantees in Section 15(1) of the Constitution of Zimbabwe and Article 5 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It constitutes degrading punishment contrary to Section 15(1) of the Constitution of Zimbabwe and violates human dignity, as they are permanently denied access to an inviolable domain of private life. In particular, such treatment constitutes cruel and inhuman treatment in that when they are not afforded any prospect of release, this keeps them in a mental state of depression and complete hopelessness.
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Korydallos Prison Complex is the main prison of Greece, housing both maximum security men and women. Its most famous detainees are the notorious November 17 terrorist members. [neutrality disputed]The prison has consistently been cited by Amnesty International as one of the worst prisons in Europe, both for its overcrowding and inhumane treatment of detainees. The Hellenic Parliament has vowed to improve conditions, but due to bureaucratic delays, little has changed.
Sagmalcilar Prison as depicted in the film Midnight Express
American parents of jailed students are invariably flabbergasted at how little they can do to ease their cases. Ronald Lee Emmons, 22, a black Chicagoan and a former basketball player at the University of Illinois, was picked up in Istanbul for possession of two kilos of hash. Despite the efforts of his mother, he waited 13 months in Istanbul's Sagmalcilar prison before his case came to trial last February. He was sentenced to five years in jail, where all he can look forward to are the letters, books, money and extra food that U.S. Consul Douglas Heck brings on his twice-monthly visits. As a U.S. consular official in Lebanon confesses: "The truth is we simply can't do any more." The only American ever to be sprung from a Lebanese prison by executive clemency was a Los Angeles youth who was found to have terminal cancer. He was allowed to go home to die.
The suppression of basic human rights, disrespectful treatment, solitary confinement, denial of medical care, beating, torture and other physical and armed attacks on political captives have been and continue to be regular features of the Turkish prison system. Turkish fascism tries to justify this systematic aggression on the grounds, of maintaining order and discipline in its dungeons. Otherwise, they argue, the prisons face the danger of becoming foci of anarchy and chaos and ideological and political training camps for terrorists and present a challenge to the authority of the all-powerful Turkish state! The fact of the matter is that, from the point of view of the bloodthirsty Turkish ruling classes and the General Staff, all political captives, including the defendants are "terrorists"; and the best political captives are dead ones. Therefore political captives always are and have been obliged to fight for their basic human rights, including their rights to live in peace and dignity, to read books and newspapers, to defend themselves at court, to see their families and lawyers, to receive proper medical treatment, to send and receive letters and to not to be confined in solitary cells.
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