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Interview

April 22, 2025

Cameroon: still falling short

Access to justice is hindered. There is no mechanism to monitor prisons, and the death penalty remains part of the penal code. Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture in Cameroon is campaigning on all these fronts.

Analysis Inside Outside

April 22, 2025

Mutineers, rebels and objectors

Prison Insider, represented by Clara Grisot, contributed twelve compositions to the book InsideOutside to articulate, in a few words, the current challenges of prison life. Eighth piece: rebellion.

Testimonial

April 15, 2025

Tunisia: relentless harassment

Sonia Dahmani is a lawyer who has made the defence of women’s rights her personal crusade. She was violently arrested over a comment made during a media appearance, and immediately imprisoned. Her sister, Ramla, has become her voice. This is her account.

Thematic paper

April 15, 2025

Caught in the spiral

What are the human and social costs of the recourse to imprisonment? This series explores the experiences of various civil society organisations, formerly incarcerated people, researchers and policy makers challenging the criminalisation of poverty, status or activism.

Interview

March 25, 2025

The root cause of prison escapes

Thousands of incarcerated people have escaped from Haitian prisons over recent months, but what sparked this trend? Roberson Édouard from the Centre for Research and Exchange on Security and Justice gives us the answer.

Testimonial

March 17, 2025

A chain of imprisonment

Soheil Arabi is an Iranian blogger and photojournalist. He has been imprisoned for several years for his activism. Some time ago, Soheil contacted us to tell his story. We share it with you here.

March 1, 2025

Women bearing the weight of the law

More and more women across the world are being imprisoned, mostly for minor, non-violent offences. What discriminatory and punitive logic is being applied? What is being done to fight back against it?

Testimonials

Prison narratives

April 15, 2025

Tunisia: relentless harassment

Sonia Dahmani is a lawyer who has made the defence of women’s rights her personal crusade. She was violently arrested over a comment made during a media appearance, and immediately imprisoned. Her sister, Ramla, has become her voice. This is her account.

March 17, 2025

A chain of imprisonment

Soheil Arabi is an Iranian blogger and photojournalist. He has been imprisoned for several years for his activism. Some time ago, Soheil contacted us to tell his story. We share it with you here.

February 26, 2025

Türkiye: broken spirits

Berfin A. spent two years in prison, accused of showing propaganda videos to a number of students. She was subjected to various forms of torture while incarcerated. She shares with us her traumatic experience. Testimonial.

February 25, 2025

Language in the French reintegration programme

Thibaut Caudal authored a thesis on the meaning of custodial sentences and reintegration. This research led him to design a method for teaching French to people in prison at La Santé in Paris. Testimony.

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Perspectives

October 15, 2021

Europe: questioning the use of pre-trial detention

Laure Baudrihaye-Gérard, European legal director of Fair Trials, and Diana Riba i Giner MEP (Greens/EFA), discuss the potential normalisation of digital hearings in the wake of the pandemic, and the over-use of pre-trial detention.

October 15, 2021

Latin America: pre-trial detention and access to justice

October 15, 2021

South Africa: criminalizing poverty and homelessness

October 15, 2021

Solitary confinement, COVID-19 and mental health impacts

October 15, 2021

Brazil: the impact of COVID-19 on family links and prison monitoring

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Press Review

May 15, 2025

United States: tracking how the Trump administration is making the criminal legal system worse

Since taking office, the Trump administration has taken actions to eviscerate due process and the rule of law, make prison and jail conditions worse, expand the use of extreme sentences and harsh law enforcement tactics, eliminate oversight, undermine solutions that reduce incarceration.

May 12, 2025

Belgium: doctor denounces poor healthcare in Brussels prison

May 11, 2025

Libya: incarcerated people at Garnada prison dies of medical negligence

May 7, 2025

El Salvador: anguished families are losing hope as they can’t reach loved ones sent to mega-prison

May 6, 2025

Türkiye: LGBTI+ activist alleges mistreatment in prison

May 6, 2025

Iran: ‘blood runs in corridors, sewage flows in cells’, inside Iran’s Sepidar women’s prison

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April 22, 2025

Cameroon: still falling short

Access to justice is hindered. There is no mechanism to monitor prisons, and the death penalty remains part of the penal code. Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture in Cameroon is campaigning on all these fronts.

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November 18, 2024

Palestinians in Israeli prisons: oppression as a system

Thousands of Palestinians are currently deprived of their liberty by the Israeli authorities, a figure that has risen sharply in the last year. What is the current situation? Answers from the Palestinian association Addameer.

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