Isolation Behind Bars: ECtHR, CPT, and Academia Unite at Tübingen to Debate Solitary Confinement

On 8 May 2026, the Faculty of Law of Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and the Endowed Professorship of Crime Prevention and Risk Management

International Seminar “Discussions Around the Use of Solitary Confinement in Prisons” (May 8, 2026, University of Tübingen)

The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and the European Court of Human Rights in collaboration with the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen

Institutional Darkness: The Inaction of the PCMRU and Odesa SIZO as a Systemic Dysfunction of Penitentiary Oversight (Proceedings in Case No. 420/9112/26)

2 April 2026, the European Court of Human Rights delivered its judgment in Ukrayinskyy and Others v. Ukraine — 42 applicants, correctional colony

The Pre-Trial Centre as an Invisible Source of Harm in the Model of Impersonal State Liability

There is a category of legal issues that are both well-known and systematically ignored. Compensation for non-pecuniary damage caused by unlawful criminal prosecution

‘The Black Dolphin’ as a Reflection of the Modern Russian Prison System

A video report on the ‘Black Dolphin’ penal colony (IK-6, Sol-Iletsk, Orenburg Oblast), filmed with the explicit permission of the prison administration, is

“We’re Implementing Reforms — But We Won’t Show You the Statistics”: Odessa Pre-Trial Detention Center Denies Access to Public Information

On 10 April 2026, the Odesa District Administrative Court opened proceedings in Case No. 420/9112/26. The claimant is Dmytro Yagunov, a lawyer, human

Solitary Confinement in Ukraine: Statistics That Don’t Exist and Never Have

I recently carried out what might seem like a routine administrative procedure — I sent an information request to the Department for the

New Detention Centre with 4,000 places in the Moscow Region: Relieving Pressure on the System or Preparing for a New Wave of Repression?

In early February 2026, the Main State Expert Review Board of the Russian Federation issued a positive opinion on the project to build