Testimonial

Emilio: “You can still go out.”

Emilio was imprisoned for 15 months. Is the lockdown a second imprisonment?

// A series of testimonials: In between walls (2/6)

Do the walls feel the same? They have spent months, years, even decades, in prison. Lack of space, restricted movement, idleness, inspections: these familiar rudiments have re-emerged during the lockdown. For some, it has felt felt like a return to prison with its routine and operations. They insist they were trained for this. But the lockdown was not prison, and they explain the difference. Prison Insider has brought out six narratives of former prisoners. Six perspectives on the lockdown and imprisonment.

30-year-old Emilio1i spent 15 months in prison.


  1. Name changed 

The mere thought of the outside world was depressing.