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Swaziland: “a day in prison feels like many”
Testimonial
19 April 2019. "Prison is no child’s play. It can make or break the spirit of the prisoner. The concept of time is lost when one is locked up."
As a 27-years-old political activist fighting for democracy, B. was arrested, beaten, tortured, and imprisoned for four years. He tells his story.
Japan: memories of childhood
InsideOutside
18 April 2019. "So many childhood memories, many years have passed by, trapped in my mind forever, never forgotten… Grandmothers lavender trees, I can still smell them as if it were yesterday…"
HV reacts to Bertrand Gaudillère's photograph about the sense of smell.
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Venezuela: 65 détenus s'évadent d'une prison de l'île de Margarita
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France: "Prison Breakfast", une émission où l'on "invente des recettes à partir des repas fournis aux détenus"
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Africa: prisons and contexts
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17 April 2019. Are overpopulation, squalor, epidemics and malnutrition all there is to prisons in Africa?
An online course aims to debunk common preconceptions about prisons in Africa. "They are not all the same; they are the product of a particular history and context"
Switzerland: "there is still beauty, I know"
InsideOutside
11 April 2019. "Despite the walls that keep me trapped in this prison, I know that beyond them, things retain their colour, their taste, their smell." Read Inma's reaction to Bertrand Gaudillère's photograph about the sense of smell.
Greenland: monitoring and rehab
9 April 2019. "The prisoners are allowed to leave the prison to go to school or to work outside. Other outings are authorized, such as visiting with family members, going shopping, and sometimes even fishing or hunting on Sundays"
Johan works as a guard in one of the six prisons in Greenland. Prison Insider asks him three questions.
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Romania
Stephen Tourlentes
United States of America
Augustin Le Gall
Tunisia
Fernando Moleres
Sierra Leone
Sebastien van Malleghem
Belgium
Carlos Hernandez
Venezuela
Seyi Rhodes, reporter
Haiti
Pierre Duvert
Madagascar
Irina Popova
Belarus
Nathalie Mohadjer
Burundi
Grégoire Korganow
France
Andrew Aitchison
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United States of America
Camera intimă
Conjugal visits are allowed for prisoners and take place in private rooms, located inside the prison compound. Cosmin Bumbut photographed those places, when they were empty.
Of Lengths and Measures
When nights start to fall, prisons still glow on the outskirts of towns. Stephen Tourlentes unveils the architectural stigma of incarceration.
Cinema in prison
Four Tunisian prisons host screenings at a film festival. Augustin Le Gall, a photojournalist, brings back a sample of the wind of freedom that blew into Borj Erroumi prison.
Waiting for Justice
Children are incarcerated illegally in the maximum security prison of Pademba, in Sierra Leone. Fernando Moleres shares with us the daily lives of the minors in the Prison of Freetown.
Prisons
Being deprived of freedom causes extreme distress. The images by Sebastien van Malleghem denounce the archaic and opaque walls which enclose these men and women and their broken lives.
The Franklin Masacre survivors
Carlos Hernandez photographed the men who survived Franklin Masacre’s reign over the General Penitentiary of Venezuela.
Forgotten prisoners
Prisoners are waiting. Most of them will never be judged because their files are missing. Many will die.
Seyi Rhodes, reporter, comments on photographs he has taken inside the Port-au-Prince prison.
Captured childhood
More than one million children are imprisonned throughout the world, according to UNICEF. In Madagascar, a large majority of them are yet to be judged.
Pierre Duvert captures their everyday life.
Welcome to LTP
In Belarus, people are locked up to wean them off alcohol. These are strange places where time seems to have stopped after the fall of Soviet Union.
The Dungeon
Children languishing in dark cells. They are victims of alleged arbitrary justice, and they spend years without seeing the inside of a courtroom.
Prisons
From 2011 to 2014, Grégoire Korganow went inside some 20 corrections facilities and photographed everything he saw: inside the cells, courtyard, visitation booths, showers, solitary confinement block, and more, by day and by night.
Prison Stories
The everyday lives of inmates, guards and visitors.
Prisons of Madagascar
“Overcrowding, the stench of urine as soon as you cross the threshold, rats and vermin everywhere…” Virginie de Galzain
Breaking the Circle
Minors released from prison have no access to reentry programs. Some go back to the streets and try to survive; others receive support from various organisations.
Story of Earl Reinhardt
While seeking out a subject for a report on aging detainees, Sarah Bones meets Earl, who has spent the past 50 of his 75 years behind bars.
