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Prisoners during the war
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14 August 2019. Seven million people were imprisoned during the First World War. One hundred years later, the exhibition ‘7 Million’ focuses on their living conditions in the camps, the reality of their captivity, and the political issues they created for the states in conflict.Prison Insider interviews Daniel Palmieri, historian at the ICRC.
Pakistan: misery on death row, including for juveniles
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7 August 2019. The third most prolific executioner in the world sentences juveniles to death. The conditions of detention for juveniles are miserable, and the total number who are incarcerated remains unknown. Prison Insider asked a local activist three questions.
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Australia: "I just need it to end"
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Japan: money is time
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7 June 2019. “A virtual silence envelopes the area; all that can be heard are the muted tones of the electric-powered machines…it is almost as if all signs of human life have been erased.” Geoffrey is incarcerated in Osaka prison. He describes one working day.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Forgotten prisoners
Prisoners are waiting. Most of them will never be judged because their files are missing. Many will die.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
