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USA: A hint of freedom
Exclusive testimonial
19 September 2017. "I have to tell her of the injustice, of the cold nights, the lonely days, the high security prisons I've dealt with..."
Tewhan writes about Anne-Valérie's visit.
Move along, please. Nothing to see here
Business as usual?
20 September 2017. Excessive wealth, poverty, corruption, impunity are the ingredients which feed the most horrendous violence. Prison is the ultimate in marking one’s territory. This is Bernard Bolze's editorial.
Nepal: the challenges of achieving justice
Torture in police custody
15 September 2017. Our correspondent Advocacy Forum (AF) releases a report and points out the lack of cooperation from the Nepal Police. AF aims to promote the rule of law in Nepal. Read its report
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France : des détenus des Baumettes s'exposent au palais de justice de Marseille
Source - Libération
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Turquie : les prisons se sont modernisées, mais l'islamisation domine
Source - Slate
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France : la prison, "miroir grossissant" des stéréotypes sur la sexualité féminine
Source - Libération
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Russie : Une membre des Pussy Riot raconte les traitements subis dans une prison pour femmes
Source - Vice
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Move along, please. Nothing to see here
Business as usual?
20 September 2017. Excessive wealth, poverty, corruption, impunity are the ingredients which feed the most horrendous violence. Prison is the ultimate in marking one’s territory. This is Bernard Bolze's editorial.
Sexuality in women's prisons
Academic research
14 September 2017. Myriam Joel's book has just been published. It deals with sexuality in women's facilities. This content is only available in French. Browse the website in French to access it.
In Nepal, imprisoned
12 September 2017. This testimonial is not yet available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Prison population drops
Ukrainian prisons
7 September 2017. In a span of three years, Ukraine halved its number of inmates. Some legislative reforms and the loss of its territory, which passed under Russian control, may partly explain that.
Seyi Rhodes, reporter
Haiti
Pierre Duvert
Madagascar
Irina Popova
Belarus
Carlos Hernandez
Venezuela
Nathalie Mohadjer
Burundi
Grégoire Korganow
France
Fernando Moleres
Sierra Leone
Andrew Aitchison
United Kingdom
Virginie de Galzain
Madagascar
Sarah Bones
United States of America
Fernando Moleres
Sierra Leone
Sebastien van Malleghem
Belgium
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 Franklin Masacre survivors
Carlos Hernandez photographed the men who survived Franklin Masacre’s reign over the General Penitentiary of Venezuela.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
