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Switzerland: a day in prison
Testimonial
7 June 2018. Inma is incarcerated in the prison of Champ-Dollon in Switzerland. She talks about the ritornello of a day spent in detention.
Read her testimonial.
"Is this the only response?"
Report
2 June 2018. Detention conditions are degrading, the number of prisoners is increasing while the overall level of crime is declining in a majority of societies. The main findings of PRI’s annual report do sound familiar.
Read the report.
Writing competition
Get involved
31 May 2018. Prison Reform Trust's writing competition has been launched. Different subjects ('what is prison for?', 'Inside Out', 'Speak out') and three categories are available (short story, comments, spoken words). Find more in the leaflet and in our section "Get Involved.
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Así se vota en una cárcel de Colombia
Source - El Espectador
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.
France : à la prison de Fleury, quatre surveillants condamnés pour une fouille qui dégénère
Source - Le Parisien
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Yoga, la terapia para liberar a los presos en las cárceles argentinas
Source - El Tiempo
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.
UK: number of far-right terrorists in prisons triples as arrests hit new record
Source - The Independent
Islamists make up the majority of terrorist prisoners and suspects arrested in Britain. The number of far-right terrorists imprisoned in Britain has more than tripled in a…
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Italy: challenges ahead
Report
25 May 2018. The results of last week elections compromise the hopes of an effective prison reform. NGO Antigone reviews the current situation in its annual report "A Year in Prison" and points the major challenges ahead.
Ukraine: the roof is leaking
Report
24 May 2018. Outdated premises, lack of access to drinking water, inadequate healthcare: a monitoring team points out several deficiencies.
Read more here.
Turkey: behind bars
Country-profile available
17 May 2018. In October 2017, at least 22,000 prisoners sleep on the ground for lack of available beds. They take turns to sleep. The prison population has increased considerably since 2005 due to a repressive political climate.
The endemic overpopulation deteriorates detention conditions.
Intimate rooms in Romanian prisons
Picture gallery
9 May 2018. Cosmin Bumbut photographed conjugal rooms in Romanian prisons, when they were empty. Once the door is closed, intimacy, as allowed by the institution, may occur...
Cosmin Bumbut
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
United Kingdom
Virginie de Galzain
Madagascar
Fernando Moleres
Sierra Leone
Sarah Bones
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.
