Investigations
Uruguay: The straw that broke the camel’s back
Investigations
Interview
South America
Material conditions
Protest
Violence
Uruguay
The Executive Power of Uruguay remitted the Bill on the Organisation of the National Prison System to the parliament. This bill aims to transform the National Institute of Rehabilitation (INR, Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación), the body that governs prisons, into a decentralised entity that is…
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Austria: through the lens of the incarcerated
Investigations
Coronavirus
Europe
Foreign prisoners
Overcrowding
Alternatives
Rehabilitation
Work
Austria
Prisons might be one of the most severely underreported spheres in our otherwise heavily investigated world. Journalist Sarah Yolanda Koss dives into Austrian prison issues.
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Austria: Final destination, Göllersdorf
Investigations
Coronavirus
Europe
Health
Mental health
Social ties
Rehabilitation
Austria
In a tiny village in Lower Austria lies one of the country’s “special institutions for mentally abnormal, unsound offenders”. Journalist Sarah Yolanda Koss dives into the everyday life of those imprisoned in the Göllersdorfer castle.
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Russia: “They’re killing us!”
News
Investigations
Austria: “Nobody knew how to deal with the virus”
Investigations
Coronavirus
Europe
Social ties
Rehabilitation
Work
Austria
Two years of Coronavirus, two incarcerated men: Journalist Sarah Yolanda Koss dives into the everyday life of two Austrian prisons.
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Nowhere to turn
Investigations
Belgium: locked-up outside
Investigations
Testimonial
Europe
Long-term prisoners
Rehabilitation
Belgium
How does someone truly become free?
Marcus spent his childhood in a children’s home before serving more than 20 years in prison. He has never known anything other than confinement.
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Hunger strike: a last resort for Kurdish prisoners
Investigations
/ edited on 6 March 2019.*
More than 300 political prisoners are currently on hunger strike in Turkey, some for more than a hundred days now. They are denouncing the prison conditions of the Kurdish leader, Abdullah Öcalan, in addition to the extensive political repression in Turkey.
According to…
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Russian prisoners : backtracking
Investigations
Europe
Russia
— Published 9 February 2018.¶
A shortage of medical assistance, abusive convictions…Russia continues to violate the law in its prison system. By excluding activists from prison visiting commissions, the government has taken another step toward illegal and inhumane practices.
The famous and brave j…
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South America
— Published 1st December 2018.¶
After the candidate of the Frente Amplio party José Mujica’s presidential victory in March 2010, Uruguay started an important reform process to its penitentiary system. Seven years later, this small and peaceful country has one of the highest incarceration rates in S…
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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…
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Children, Palestinians, Prisoners
Investigations
Middle East
Israel
Broken childhoods. The title of the report, produced by a consortium of associations including Platform for Palestine and the League of Human Rights, is not simply a title. The reality for these minors who have been interrogated, charged and imprisoned under Israeli military law is beyond comprehen…
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Different detention conditions for Palestinian prisoners
Investigations
Middle East
Access to legal rights
Justice
Torture
Violence
Israel
Nearly 7,000 Palestinian prisoners are incarcerated in Israeli prisons, under the military regime.
The facilities are located outside of the occupied territories, in total violation of international law. Arrested for political reasons, the detainees are particularly prone to arbitrary detention, to…
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Madagascar
Investigations
Africa
The association Grandir Dignement has, since 2009, been intervening in the cases of some of the 692 children detained in Malagasy prisons, providing professional training, legal counselling and educational monitoring, as well as bringing about improvements in their living conditions and fighting ag…
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Life imprisonment
Investigations
Long-term prisoners
IN 1981, at the height of the debate on the abolition of the death penalty in France, philosopher Michel Foucault had this warning: “The real divide between criminal justice systems is not between those that include the death penalty and the others; it is between those that allow irreversible sente…
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