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LGBTI prisoners: preventing torture and abuses
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12 December 2018. The APT recently issued a new practical guide to protect LGBTI persons deprived of liberty. It provides practical guidance to help accounting for sexual orientation, gender identity and sex characteristics in a torture prevention framework.
Read and download the guide.
New Zealand: right to vote for all
Get involved
12 December 2018. In 2010, people serving time in prison had their voting rights removed. To the organization JustSpeak, "voting must belong to all, and removing basic rights should never be used as a means to punish people".
They are calling on the Government to enshrine voting rights for all people.
Japan: "I long to be held"
InsideOutside
11 December 2018. "I have forgotten what it is like to be touched. Falling rain never deigns to alight upon me. I cannot reach through metal mesh, I cannot experience it."
CH reacts to Bertrand Gaudillère's photograph about the sense of touch.
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Togo: les visiteuses sont victimes d'attouchements dans une prison
Source - DW
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
France: l’Enap, l’école qui forme les surveillants de prison
Source - Néon
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
USA: the criminal justice reform bill you’ve never heard of
Source - Marshall Project
Mitch McConnell’s Senate has quietly passed juvenile justice legislation that would ban states from holding children in adult jails.
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Ukraine: little has changed
testimonial
10 December 2018. "One can refuse to work, but may as a result end up in the punishment cell." Sergiy was incarcerated during four years between 2001 and 2005 in the prison of Cherkasy.
For Prison Insider, he describes how a day used to be like for him. According to our correspondents Ukraine without Torture, prison life has changed little since.
Colombia: "our sense of touch provides our salvation"
InsideOutside
4 December 2018. "Here we must cling on to what we can physically touch and to the never-ending, monotonous, daily routine, backwards and forwards to the same few places for the length of our sentence..."
Ricardo reacts to Bertrand Gaudillère's photograph about the sense of touch.
Who is to speak for the sense of touch?
InsideOutside
4 December 2018. We have asked some prisoners, which countries, walls, and cultures separate, to talk -from Bertrand Gaudillère’s images- about their perception of touch.
Discover the first answers to the photograph about touch.
France : "touch is the feeling of life"
InsideOutside
4 December 2018. "Touch helps to remind us that we exist, since our birth, no matter where we are..."
Anne-Marie reacts to Bertrand Gaudillère's photograph about touch.
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.
