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USA: conclusion
InsideOutside
16 January 2019. "I conclude. I need only to gain the platform to obtain a better future. I conclude: my future is on the horizon. Beautiful, colorful, succinct."
Eric reacts to Bertrand Gaudillère's photograph about the sense of sight.
Switzerland: my new world
InsideOutside
15 January 2019. "All my dreams perished when prison became my new world, my new life, my new home."
Inma reacts to Bertrand Gaudillère's photo about the sense of sight.
Who is to speak for the sense of sight?
InsideOutside
8 January 2019. We have asked some prisoners, which countries, walls, and cultures separate, to talk -from Bertrand Gaudillère’s images- about their perception of sight.
First answers.
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France: prison, quel sens pour les longues peines ? [audio]
Source - Radio Amicus
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can listen the French version.
Spain: un 67%, a favor de la prisión permanente revisable, incluida la mayoría de votantes de Podemos
Source - El Espanol
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.
United Kingdom: prison praised for installing photobooth for inmates and visitors
Source - The Guardian
Families can use booth to take group shots as part of effort to improve visits for children.
Iceland: no prison psychiatrist in five years
Source - Iceland Review
There hasn’t been a psychiatrist working in Icelandic prisons for more than five years, despite that fact that prisoners are guaranteed mental health services by law, RÚV reports.…
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USA: staring at an unwelcoming world
InsideOutside
8 January 2019. "For my entire life I have been this man. Staring all around me at the glass ceiling, staring at a world unwelcoming to I."
Tewhan reacts to Bertrand Gaudillère's photograph about the sense of sight.
Colombia: "like a free man"
InsideOutside
8 January 2019. "I’ve often felt like a free man because of this small, insignificant hole for a window. When I look out, I dream, imagine, believe, and reconstruct the world and life.
Ricardo reacts to Bertrand Gaudillère's photograph about the sense of sight.
France: nothing but a handshake
InsideOutside
26 December 2018. "Apart from this ritual daily greeting, there is no physical contact, apart from occasional fights."
Pascal reacts to Bertrand Gaudillère's photograph about the sense of touch.
Japan: deprivation of liberty, deprivation of humanity
Testimonial
26 December 2018. "If one can imagine a military-recruit boot camp combined with a repressive crèche supervised by screaming sadists applying draconian regulation and arbitrary rules, then you are halfway to the reality!"
Geoffrey describes, for Prison Insider, what any day in a Japanese prison looks like.
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.
