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Another 20 years for jailed Russian critic Navalny? What you should know
Navalny, a constant thorn in Putin’s side, could be handed yet another lengthy sentence on Friday on a slew of extremism charges. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/3/russian-court-to-deliver-verdict-for-putin-critic-navalny
Russia Leads Europe in Prison Inmate Deaths – CoE Report
Russia has outpaced all European countries in the number of inmate deaths with a total of 4,200 lethal cases registered in the country's prisons in 2013, the RBC business newspaper reported Tuesday, citing a report prepared by the Council of Europe.
The Council of Europe report studied the prison systems of 47 countries. Of 4,200 deaths registered in Russian prisons, 461 were suicides, the report said.
Russia has also shown the highest inmate mortality rate among major European countries — six deaths per 1,000 prisoners, while in other countries this figure stands at about 2.8, the report said.
The report stated that Russia — despite the annual 5 percent reduction in the number of inmates — ranks first in prison population among the European states, with 467 inmates per 100,000 people. In 2014, Russia had a total of 671,000 prisoners serving five to 10 years on average.
Russia also has the largest number of inmates convicted of murder among the European countries, the report said, RBC reported.
UK prison population is biggest in western Europe
In a comparison of 50 European countries, Britain is behind only Russia and Turkey in number of prisoners
Britain has the largest prison population in western Europe at 95,248, which is nearly 20,000 higher than France and 30,000 more than Germany, according to the latest Council of Europe figures.
The annual statistics for 50 European countries show Britain is behind only Russia with its 671,027 prisoners and Turkey with 151,451.
The appetite for incarceration in Britain is underlined by the number of prisoners per 100,000 population, which stands at 149.7 for England and Wales and 147.6 for Scotland, compared with 118 for France and 81.4 for Germany.
The European comparison comes soon after the justice secretary Michael Gove’s declaration that he believed it was possible to implement his radical prison reform programme without dramatically reducing the prison population.
The Council of Europe said its 2014 penal figures showed that overcrowding had been slowly declining in European prisons since 2011, although it remaind a problem in a quarter of prison administrations.
The total prison population across the 50 countries stood at 1,600,324 in September 2014, putting it near the top (94%) of the capacity of European jails. This is about 70,000 more than the figure for 2013, which stood at 1,530,222.
Britain does not feature in the European top 10 of countries with the most overcrowded prisons, with that table headed by Hungary, Belgium, Macedonia, Greece, Albania, Italy and Spain.
But it does have the highest population of prisoners serving life sentences: 7,468 in England and Wales and 1,010 in Scotland, compared with 1,953 in Germany, 1,599 in Italy and 466 in France. The proportion of those prisoners is also higher in Britain at 10% compared with a European average of 3%. This reflects the much reduced use of indeterminate sentences in the rest of Europe.
There are, however, fewer foreign nationals incarcerated in Britain than in other major western European countries. There were 10,834 foreign prisoners in England and Wales, compared with 14,688 in France, 19,562 in Germany, 17,457 in Italy and 20,125 in Spain.
The average spent per prisoner per day in England and Wales of €109 (£84) is above the European average of €99 or £76.62.
Prison suicides in England and Wales reach record high
Ministry of Justice figures show 119 inmates killed themselves last year, and assaults and self-harm also rose
A record 119 people killed themselves in prisons in England and Wales in 2016 – an increase of 29 (32%) on the previous year, according to Ministry of Justice figures.
The record number of self-inflicted deaths in prison – equal to one every three days – compares with the previous high of 96 in 2004 and represents a doubling of the jail suicide rate since 2012.
The latest official “safety in custody” statistics show that an epidemic of violence has swept prisons in the 12 months to September, with a 40% rise in assaults on staff and a 28% increase in prisoner-on-prisoner assaults. The rise in jail suicides has been accompanied by a 23% increase in incidents of self-harm, to a total of 37,784.
The justice secretary, Elizabeth Truss, said: “Since becoming justice secretary, I have been clear that the violence, self-harm and deaths in our prisons are too high.
“I have taken immediate action to stabilise the estate by tackling the drugs, drones and phones that undermine security. We are also investing £100m annually to boost the frontline by 2,500 officers.
“These are longstanding issues that will not be resolved in weeks or months but our wholescale reforms will lay the groundwork to transform our prisons, reduce reoffending and make our communities safer.”
The Liberal Democrat leader, Tim Farron, said the figures showed the prison crisis was spiralling out of control. “Chronic underfunding and lack of staff are turning our prisons into hotbeds of violence when they should be places of rehabilitation,” he said.
“The sharp rise in suicides shows too many vulnerable people are slipping through the net with tragic consequences. The government must get a grip and ensure prisons are sufficiently funded and staffed to reverse this deeply alarming rise in deaths and violence.”
The Royal College of Psychiatrists said the fact that prison suicides were at record levels was tragic, but it was only one of the most serious consequences of the last government’s decision to cut prison staffing while prisoner numbers were rising.
“The prison service is in crisis following a 40% cut in the number of prison officers, and mental health teams are struggling to help prisoners in desperate need. In many cases there is no one available to escort prisoners to in-prison clinics from time to time, even when a psychiatrist goes to a prisoner’s cell, as there are not enough prison officers present and the cell door can’t be unlocked for safety reasons,” said Prof Pamela Taylor, of the RCP’s forensic faculty.
“Training for staff is also suffering. Last week’s inquest into a prisoner’s suicide in Cheltenham reported that prison staff mistakenly believed ‘a prison psychiatrist’s’ permission was needed before he could be transferred to hospital. Health service staff can only do so much – the whole system must become more functional.”
Deborah Coles, the director of Inquest, which works with bereaved families, said: “This unacceptable death toll reflects the grim reality of overcrowded and dehumanising prisons and the failure to protect those in their care … This broken system cannot deal with societal problems of mental and physical ill health, addictions, poverty and housing.”
She said a radical reduction in the prison population, investment in alternatives and a change in the nature and culture of prison so they are places of last resort and rehabilitation would better serve victims, communities and prisoners. “If the government fails to act, the scandalous death toll will continue.”
Peter Dawson, the director of the Prison Reform Trust, also said it was time to cut the 85,000-strong prison population. “Another record low in standards of safety should leave no one in any doubt of the need to relieve the pressure on our failing prison system. We know that the worst outcomes happen in overcrowded prisons. Reducing the population can no longer be an afterthought – it is the only realistic way to make our prisons safe in the foreseeable future.”
The detailed figures show there were a record 354 deaths in prisons in 2016, up by 97 (38%) from the previous year, reflecting the ageing profile of the prison population, particularly sex offenders on lengthy sentences.
The record high of 119 self-inflicted deaths included 12 female prisoners. The justice ministry said the likelihood of self-inflicted death in custody was now 8.6 times higher than in the general population.
Assaults behind bars reached a record high of 25,049 in the 12 months to September, a rise of 31% or 5,995 on the previous year. The figures include 3,372 assaults classed as serious – an increase of 26% over the previous year. Serious assaults on staff have trebled since 2012, reaching 761 in the most recent year.
The MoJ says the prison population in England and Wales has remained relatively stable for the past five years. The population stood at 85,048 last Friday. Between 1990 and 2012 it doubled from 42,000 to 84,000.
The latest official figures for the proven reoffending rate of convicted offenders show a slight fall in the past 12 months, to 25.3%. The MoJ says the rate has remained fairly flat since 2004, fluctuating between 25% and 27%.
The detailed prison figures show that on 88,017 occasions, prisoners were released on temporary licence in the 12 months to September, with only 69 recorded as failures. They also show 1,504 offenders breached the terms of their prison release licence but were not returned to jail between 1999 and 2016. They included 217 who had been serving a sentence for violence, and 47 sex offenders.
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