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War on drugs: the execution plan
Indonesia country-profile available
24 July 2017. More than 13,000 islands, 464 prisons. In Indonesia, approximately 70% of detainees are imprisoned for drug-related offenses. Still going up : 12,000 additional prisoners between January and March 2017.
Talk to prisoners
Radio and prison
13 July 2017. This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Prison in Avignon festival
Prison Possession
17 July 2017. This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Seen in the press
How the gulag Llves on in Russia's prison economy
Source - The Moscow Times
In Russia, running a prison is a business. The Soviet gulag may have transformed into Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN), but its essence arguably is unchanged. With…
España: falta de personal en las cárceles españolas pese a su masificación
Source - La Gaceta
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.
Perú: los ciegos que llevan paz a las cárceles de Perú
Source - Aleteia
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.
United States: condemned to death — and solitary confinement
Source - The Marshall Project
Arizona death row inmate Scott Nordstrom lives alone in a room smaller than a parking space. He’s allowed to leave his cell a few times each week to shower or exercise…
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War on drugs must end
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13 July 2017. Let's not return to the unnecessarily cruel sentencing policies of years past. The war on drugs must end. Attorney General Jeff Sessions promotes unfair policies.
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Imprisonned, in Brazil
Views from the inside
4 July 2017. Detained in a prison located in the state of Saõ Paulo, S. shares his views on the everyday life. Five showers for 300 inmates, no meals between 3.30 pm and 5 am... Living in Campinas prison is tough.
Exclusive testimonial (only in French)
Belarus : weaning people off alcohol by locking them up
Picture gallery
7 July 2017. Compulsory treatment is supposed to make you quit your alcohol addiction: hard labour, strict regime and herbal potion. Irina Popova takes pictures of these strange places where time seems to have stopped after the fall of Soviet Union.
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
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.
