Kersty McCourt

The excessive use of pretrial detention leads to overcrowded, unhygienic, chaotic, and violent environments where pretrial detainees – who have not been convicted – are at risk of contracting disease.

Around the world, millions of people are locked up in pretrial detention because of corruption.

Torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment are not aberrations. They are common—even routine—in many detention facilities.

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