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poor prison conditions
Mothers and children suffer from overcrowding, sickness and neglect in İzmir’s Şakran Prison
A female inmate on Thursday said women and children in her ward in İzmir’s Şakran Prison were suffering from overcrowding, sickness and neglect, the...
Mother of former military cadet says son’s cell lacks heating and warm water
Melek Çetinkaya, the mother of a former military cadet who is serving a life sentence for allegedly participating in an abortive putsch in Turkey...
Conditions in Kayseri Bünyan and Tarsus prisons dismal, says parliamentary Human Rights Committee
The Turkish Parliament’s Human Rights Committee has said in a report that conditions in Tarsus and Kayseri Bünyan prisons were dismal and needed major...
Heating system doesn’t work in İstanbul’s Silivri Prison despite freezing temperatures
Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) lawmaker Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu in a Monday tweet criticized the worsening conditions in İstanbul’s Silivri Prison, saying the heating system doesn’t...