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USA: staying awake while doing time
Testimonial
11 April 2018. "If you could sleep through your entire sentence and wake up on the day of your release, would you?"
Robert Lee Allen, imprisoned in the state of Michigan, shares his thoughts.
Nepal: a thousand trades, a thousand miseries (IV)
Testimonial
10 April 2018. The government gives 45 Rupees per person, per day. Here, 35 of these Rupees are taken at source, supposedly for paying for the administration, cooks, dishwashers, etc. Work, taxes, salary ... Renaud shares his story.
USA: of lengths and measures
portfolio
9 April 2018. Stephen Tourlentes spent almost 20 years on the roads, to unveil the architectural stigma of incarceration.
When nights start to fall, prisons still glow on the outskirts of towns: portfolio.
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France : Prison de Fleury-Mérogis. Des enquêtes ouvertes après la mort de deux détenus
Source – Ouest France
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USA: sept morts, 17 blessés dans une mutinerie dans une prison
Source – Le Figaro
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Somalia: cárcel para poetisa por hablar contra independencia zona secesionista
Source – La Vanguardia
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France : la prison ultrasécurisée d'Alençon prépare l'arrivée de détenus radicalisés
Source – Paris Match
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Africa : "Abolition is the irreversible trend”
9 April 2018. The African Congress Against the Death Penalty opened today in Abidjan (Ivory Coast). To Raphaël Chenuil-Hazan, general manager of ECPM, "more African countries are choosing to abolish the death penalty every year", thus leading to a complete abolition of death penalty in Africa.
France: indignity in prison
Testimonial
9 April 2018. "I can see that they are also depriving me of my dignity"
Hunger strikes, violence, unsanitary conditions.
Samy, 33 years old, incarcerated in France, tells the story of his daily life.
Turkey: fading away
Testimonial
4 April 2018. "I am about to forget my native language"
Havre comes from Iran. He has been detained in Turkey for six years. His story is one of deprivation. Deprivation of his liberty, his family, his mother tongue. Exclusive testimonial.
World: compare prison systems
Compare
4 April 2018. Key-figures about imprisonment are available for more than 80 countries in our Comparison section. Get to discover major prison trends.
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
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.
