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The information site on prisons throughout the world
Turkey: more prisons, more prisoners
Infographics
18 October 2018. The graphic designer Headwar shares his interpretation of the data gathered by Prison Insider about major incarceration trends in Turkey.
This week: population, prison.
Japan: frozen time, frozen days
testimonial
9 October 2018. Adam is a British citizen. He is currently incarcerated in Osaka prison. He is 61 years-old and is being imprisoned abroad since 2010. He describes a day, for Prison Insider.
Reintegration: prisoners, don’t eat that kind of bread!
Open Discussion
2 October 2018. Samuel Lourenço Filho spent nine years incarcerated in Brazil. For him, the topic of reintegration is one that is not easy to swallow. Point of view.
They are talking about it
Testimonials
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Australia: Canberra prison close to capacity
Source - Canberra Times
Canberra prison is bursting at the seams, as a spike in male inmates stretches the jail's population to record levels.
A total of 507 prisoners were locked up at Alexander…
Canada : feds aim to replace solitary confinement in prisons with ‘structured intervention units’
Source - Global News
Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale has tabled a new bill in the House of Commons aimed at ridding Canadian prisons of solitary confinement.
Bill C-83 suggests designating…
Bolivie : proyecto de trato diferenciado beneficiará a más de 1.500 mujeres en cárceles
Source - Los Tiempos
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.
France : le centre éducatif fermé pour mineurs, une alternative imparfaite à la prison
Source - Streetpress
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
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Brazil: pressed against the bars, waiting for tomorrow
testimonial
27 September 2018. Everyone is sleeping, except for the inmate designated to monitor the cell during the night.
Samuel, imprisoned in Brazil, describes a day.
Nepal: strong resemblance to the past
Report
22 August 2018. Despite the ratification of six key international human rights treaties by Nepal, AF lawyers have witnessed numerous cases of ill-treatments and tortures in police detention centers, where those behaviors have been proven to be more likely to happen. Report
France: intimacy inside four walls
Testimonial
14 August 2018. Celine’s partner is serving a sentence of ten years. He has been imprisoned for six years when he submits his first request for an FVU. After months of visits in the regular visitation rooms, permission for a nine-hour stay is granted. Céline tells the story.
England and Wales: sharp rise in the number of prisoners
Report
6 August 2018. The prison population has risen by 77% in the past thirty years. It comes as the result of an increasing use of custodial measures.
Prison Reform Trust has just issued a brief document presenting key-figures about incarceration in England and Wales. Read more.
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.
