Insights
USA: inside the kids’ cells
Insights
Interview
North America
Minors
Material conditions
United States
They are 60,000. Who? The minors incarcerated in America’s prisons. Richard Ross is a photographer. His ‘Juvenile in Justice’ work has been giving them a voice for the past two decades.
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USA: "This is the real Miami"
Insights
Focus
POINT de vues
Insights
Portfolio
Women
Europe
Material conditions
Facilities
France
Delphine Dauphy and Marc Loyon ran photography workshops in prisons for six months. This involved visiting both Vezin-le-Coquet prison and Rennes women’s prison seven times. Every prisoner was able to take part in creating a body of images documenting their daily life.
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USA: reading comes at a cost
Insights
Culture
North America
Justice
Activities
Alternatives
Rehabilitation
United States
At the age of seventeen, Chris Wilson is sentenced to life without parole. In prison, he formulates what he calls a “master plan”. The document sets his project for self-improvement and draws the way to changing his life. He serves 16 years before being freed. And reading books was a great deal.
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About the things we keep
Insights
Culture
To tell the untellable Ricardo has turned to writing.
He has been imprisoned for nine years in Colombia and has decided to share with Prison Insider the torments of a life behind bars. His pen helps him reflect on the questions that obsess those deprived of liberty: abandonment by loved ones, fear…
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