What is the Venezuelan Prison Gang Tren de Aragua?
The United States on Thursday placed sanctions on Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang with prison origins that law enforcement leaders throughout the
Ecuador Gangs Target Prison Chiefs to Regain Control
The murder of the head of Ecuador’s largest men’s prison appears to be the latest act of violence by prison gangs in their
Security and Violence in Prison (Penal Reform International: Global Prison Trends 2024)
Violence continues to dominate prison life around the world with various root causes including inadequate staffing, overcrowding and corruption. Violence linked to criminal
Prisoners Take Hostages in Russian Prison, a Prison Officer Killed
In the Volgograd Region, a group of prisoners has taken hostage FSIN employees in correctional colony No. 19 The first reports of hostage-taking
Dmytro Yagunov: Informal Hierarchies in Modern Prisons: Nature, Manifestations, and Threats to Human Rights
In the XXI century, informal prison hierarchies are one of the main problems in prison systems across the world. They are a fact
Reflection of the criminal status of a “thief in law” in the ECHR case-law (Ashlarba v. Georgia)
3. The applicant alleged that Article 223(1) § 1 of the Criminal Code of Georgia, under which he was convicted of the offence
Volodymyr Meliukhov: Ukraine Needs New European Prisons with New Staff Oriented to European Values
I am pleased to present the views of a practitioner with extensive experience in the penitentiary service – opinions on the main problems
“S.P. v. Russia”: Informal Prison Hierarchies and Prison Subculture as a Component of Power Relations in Modern Prisons
The article analyses one of the most important decisions in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, which directly concerns
The Prison Gang as a «Brand» (an Overview of Informal Prison Hierarchies in Modern Prison Systems)
The paper is devoted to the study of prison gangs as the main form of organized crime in many foreign countries. The relevance
The Phenomenon of Informal Prison Hierarchies and the Simulacrum of Prison Subculture In Contemporary Power Relations
Based on an interdisciplinary approach, the study demonstrated that the issue of prison subcultures and informal prison hierarchies that produce the relevant subcultures