Information, topic by topic, on prisons across the world

February 12, 2020

France: "aux oubliées", l’initiative pour offrir des livres aux femmes en prison

News

Culture Women Europe Activities France

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January 17, 2020

France: à la prison de Réau, les détenus s’évadent par la danse

News

Culture Europe Activities France

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January 2, 2020

India: Shivamogga central prison to soon get digital library

News

Culture Asia India

The Central Prison in Shivamogga will soon have a digital library on its campus. The jail is already home to a library which has a collection of over 10,000 books.

December 19, 2019

USA: quand la prison fait payer aux détenus la lecture d’ebooks dans le domaine public

News

America Culture North America United States

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December 5, 2019

France: an elusive escape

Interview

Culture Europe Activities France

Natacha Galvez taught art history to inmates at Fleury-Mérogis. She is head of communications for the organisation Art et Prison. She is studying for her doctorate in philosophie esthétique and her thesis is on the creation of art in the prison environment. The following is our interview with her.

September 17, 2019

Belgium: la prison de Mons, photographiée par des détenus et exposée sur les murs d'enceinte

News

Culture Europe Belgium

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August 5, 2019

Canada: new music project allows women to tell their stories from prison

News

America Culture North America Women Activities Canada

Singing My Way Home pilot project helps female inmates in Miramichi compose their own songs.

June 4, 2019

France: en Prison, le théâtre pour s’évader

News

Culture Europe France

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April 2, 2019

Belgium: "derrière nos actes", la prison de Lantin expose ses détenus

News

Culture Europe Belgium

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November 20, 2018

France : un jury littéraire derrière les barreaux

News

Culture Europe France

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November 3, 2018

France: Lavaur, la prison pour mineurs théâtre de graves violences

News

Culture Europe Violence France

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May 18, 2018

USA: new edition of Unstoppable

News

Culture United States

Unstoppable is an antiauthoritarian and anti-prison publication for trans, non-binary, and women prisoners. They proudly announce their second issue.

May 8, 2018

USA: remembering Japanese-American incarceration during WWII

News

Culture United States

As part of its mission to bear witness to the lessons of history and to remember victims of persecution, Music of Remembrance has commissioned a new musical work about the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II by Seattle composer Christophe Chagnard.

May 1, 2018

France : "Revenants, la prison de Clairvaux entre ombres et lumières

News

Culture Europe France

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April 24, 2018

USA: the première of “O.G.,” the film made inside an Indiana Prison

News

Culture United States

The film “O.G.,” set and shot in a prison in Indiana, using inmates and guards as cast and crew, had its première on Friday night, as part of the Tribeca Film Festival

March 22, 2018

USA: go inside Iowa’s oldest prison this April

News

Culture United States

Tickets are now on sale for the public to tour the historic Iowa State Penitentiary over the weekend of April 14-15.

March 11, 2018

España: libertad creativa en la cárcel

News

Culture Spain

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March 8, 2018

About the things we keep

Insights

Culture

Torments of a life behind bars - prose poem (Colombia)

November 27, 2017

Etats-Unis : voici les œuvres d'art des détenus de Guantánamo, dont ils sont maintenant privés

News

Culture United States

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November 16, 2017

France: Raymond Depardon’s best photograph - a prisoner jogging in endless circles

News

Culture Europe France

“He had requested to stay in solitary confinement. The netting up above is there to stop escapes by helicopter”

October 18, 2017

Cinema in prison

Portfolio

Africa Culture Tunisia

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.

August 2, 2017

Radio and prison

Investigations

Culture Europe Activities Social ties

They get life on the outside to come inside – radio broadcasts for and by detainees and their families. The fundamentals are often the same: anybody can call in to relay a message to a brother, a daughter, a friend in prison, or simply to express support. So, through the walls pass words of hope, o…

July 3, 2017

Le Voyage à Nantes met les artistes en prison

News

Culture France

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June 19, 2017

Map with a view

Insights

Culture Facilities

Laure Tixier presents a series of black abstract shapes, a collection of plans of prisons from all over the world