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Research batch 6
Batch 6.
Batch 6 (6 Oct 2026) adds Turkey (forensic medicine used to keep prisoners in, not put them in), India (custodial neglect under court and NHRC monitoring), and the 22-country comparative data set that serves as the comparison set for \[corrected, Batch 18/D06: observational, measures incidence not wrongful detention; "control group" withdrawn\] the whole record: legal safeguards \[withdrawn as a general claim, Batch 20/A04: an incidence comparison cannot show safeguards fail\] do not predict detention rates.
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Read the full source record →Turkey: forensic reports used to keep prisoners confined
Turkey, 2016–2025
Teacher Tuğba Y. reportedly lost her sanity under 24 days of interrogation (Jan 2017), was treated at Bakırköy, then jailed despite medical reports; academic Uysal's psychiatric referral and petitions ignored, ATK report 2024 kept him in prison; İHD counts 1,400+ sick…
Read the recordErwadi: chained residents died in an asylum fire
India (Tamil Nadu), 6 Aug 2001; Supreme Court 2001–2025
28 chained inmates died in the Erwadi fire after NHRC warnings in May and July 2001; Supreme Court took suo motu cognizance (In re Death of 25 Chained Inmates, order 15 Oct 2001), found the 1987 Act "not at all implemented," ordered unchaining and NHRC monitoring…
Read the recordTwenty-two countries—and wide differences in detention rates
22 countries (Europe, Australia, New Zealand), 2008–2017
Median 106.4 per 100,000; Austria highest at 282, Italy lowest at 14.5, Finland 218; England rose from 83.7 (2007–08) to 114.1 (2015–16); no relationship between rates and any characteristic of the legal framework, nor with demographic, economic or service indicators
Read the recordNordic records and the coercion they can miss
Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden
Of 6,048 admissions reviewed, 3.3% (Finland) and 11.4% (Norway) of formally voluntary admissions were preceded by involuntary referral; published commitment rates therefore underestimate coercion to varying degrees; a 2026 comparative legal analysis finds "considerable…
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