Solitary confinement

Paris Hilton testified on Capitol Hill about her experiences in youth residential facilities, stating that she was “force-fed medications and sexually abused.”

Eva Kaili will remain in custody for at least another month, after the decision by the pre-trial council to reject her request to be released from prison with a "bracelet".

Her hearing, which began at 12.05 Brussels time, lasted about an hour and a half.

"They are suffering in vain", comments the MEP after yesterday's decision to remain in prison.

An investigation into the beating of a 19-year-old murder suspect in Avlona Prison, north of Athens, by a group of inmates, is to focus on the role of prison staff, Justice Minister Michalis Kalogirou indicated on Wednesday.

A convicted hitman who belonged to the now defunct November 17 terror group Christodoulos Xiros went on hunger strike on Friday to protest what he describes as his "undignified" isolation at the Korydallos maximum-security prison in western Athens.

German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yücel, who has been detained at a prison in Istanbul for nine months, is no longer in solitary confinement.

Ogün Samast, the assailant in the 2007 murder of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, has been put in solitary confinement over security concerns, daily Vatan reported on Sept. 1.

He had previously been serving his sentence in a three-person cell at a prison in the northwestern province of Kocaeli. 

Overpopulation in Turkish prisons in the aftermath of the July 15, 2016 coup attempt, which is widely believed to have been orchestrated by the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), has led the Turkish Justice Ministry to introduce new regulations that would better prison conditions for inmates serving less than 10 years in prison. 

The Justice Ministry has been allocated EUR 10 500 to pay two prison inmates who have won cases against Bulgaria, the government says.

Jock Palfreeman and Nikolay Shahanov will be paid EUR 3500 and EUR 7000 respectively.

A Thessaloniki court on Thursday handed jail terms of between five and seven years to 12 correctional officers for causing grievous bodily harm in March 2014 to Albanian inmate Ilie Kareli at Nigrita Prison in northern Greece where he later died.

The Justice Ministry recently announced that there are 387 inmates in Turkey's prisons with serious illnesses. Of these inmates, 114 are suffering from cancer.

Did you know that more than 300 prisoners die every year in Turkey? Indeed, almost every day a coffin comes out of our prisons. They say it is fate, but it is not exactly like that...