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SÊRT –After conducting a series of workshops with prisoners in Turkey, the Human Rights Association (İHD) has announced a plan to work with prisoners to address the inadequacies in Turkey's prisons, this coming July.

According to NeclaŞengül, the general secretary of the organization's commission on prisons, the association will release the topics they have discussed with the collaboration of the prisoners themselves, as well as NGOs. Based on the philosophy that prisoners know the reality of the prison best, the Association says, guided the "workshop" model that they have so far implemented with prisoners in Diyarbakır and Izmir. Further workshops will take place in the Mediterranean and Marmara Sea regions of the country.

"Politicians and bureaucrats talk about what modern conveniences are available in prisons, as if F-type prisons were vacation villas," said Necla. "But we know that prisons, in their logic and physical construction, are a serious mechanism of punishment and that with certain practices added by judicial authorities, they can become totally unlivable."

The report will address the historical developments in the use of solitary confinement as a punishment; conditions regarding execution; segregation policies in prisons; and the situation of children, women, LGBTQI people and disabled people in prisons.

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