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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.
Chile: overcrowded cells with no water and ill treatment
Report
30 July 2018. The National Institute of Human Rights (NIHR) published a dramatic report about the prison situation in Chile. Several prison units do not have access to drinking water.
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Beaten, not broken: the Russian ex-inmate covering the torture trial of former jailers
Source - The Guardian
Ruslan Vakhapov says ‘desire for revenge in a legal way’ led him to expose brutality in prison system.
He recognised all the prison guards on trial last month for the brutal…
Freed at last from prison, but not free in Azerbaijan
Source - Human Right Watch
This morning, I could not believe it when I got a text saying that Ilgar Mammadov, my friend, former colleague, and a prominent political activist from Azerbaijan, was released…
Bangladesh : un photographe de presse en prison après les manifestations
Source - AFP
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
USA: after deadly SC prison riot, prisoners nationwide may go on a hunger, labor strike
Source - The State
Two years after a national prison strike rocked U.S. correctional institutions, prisoner advocacy groups are calling for a national protest in response to the April riot at Lee…
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Italy: a government plan for harsher prison conditions
Open discussion forum
23 July 2018. The Five Star Movement and Lega’s government plan wishes to erase more than forty years of reforms. To Giuseppe Mosconi, professor of sociology of law and president of Antigone Veneto, the cancellation of alternative measures to detention will lead to a dramatic increase of detainees.
Venezuela : malnutrition and tuberculosis
Report
12 July 2018. Overcrowding, lack of food, presence of arms and drugs, tuberculosis: the Venezuelan Prisons Observatory published its 2017 annual report which documented the collapse of the penitentiary system throughout the country.
Brazil: prisons, the "new slave houses"
Investigation
6 July 2018. "The incarceration history repeats the mechanisms of slavery", says Renata Tavares da Costa, public defender in Rio de Janeiro.
Prison Insider presents an exclusive interview with her.
Nepal: release from prison (V)
Testimonial
25 June 2018. "The door opened and I walked up to the security cordon". Renaud learned about his imminent release. Still prisoner, but almost free : This is the story of his final days in prison.
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.
