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Philippines
prisons and War on drug
17 May 2017. The war conducted by president Rodrigo Duterte on drug trafficking is contributing to the increase in the prison population. The overpopulated prisons have the highest occupation rate in Asia.
More details in the country-profile.
Showing prison with humanity
18 May 2017. "I want to be one of them. Giving voice to those who are deprived of it. Share their violated intimacy"
Janusz Mrozowski has been filming inside prisons for 17 years.
This content is not available in English. Browse the website in French to access it.
Open letter to President-Elect Macron
Pragmatism and prisons
17 May 2017. Prison Insider, through an open letter written by its director Bernard Bolze, questions new French president Macron.
It is currently being translated into English but can be consulted in French and Spanish
Seen in the press
Australia: 'huge frustration' as prison overcrowding sparks violence concerns
Source - Brisbane Times
Staff at the state's largest prison are meeting on Monday to address frustrations and fears over prisoner violence amid rapidly increasing overcrowding.
France : François Bayrou en finira-t-il avec "la culture du cachot" ?
Source - Le Point
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
RDC : évasion à la prison de Makala, plus de 4600 détenus seraient en fuite
Source - RFI
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
RDC : évasion spectaculaire à la prison de Makala
Source - Radio Okapi
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Testimonial
12 May 2017. Mumia Abu Jamal in a black american journalist who has been sentenced to death in 1982 after a racist procedure. This testimonial is not yet available in English.
Venezuela
a history of violence and prisons
12 May 2017. Access to food, limited at the national level, is even more so in prisons. Read more details in our country-profile, now available in English, French and Spanish.
In Latin America
Major trends in prison
3 May 2017. Overcrowding, corruption, violence and gangs can define the reality of prisons in South America. Our graphic artist puts into drawings those trends.
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.
