Facilities
Belgium: intersecting approaches
Interview
Europe
Material conditions
Facilities
Rehabilitation
Belgium
Hoogstraten Penitentiary School Centre (PSC) is an open prison operating in a 19th century castle. Kortrijk detention house is a small-scale facility located in an urban environment. Prison Insider examines their similarities and differences.
North America
Minors
Facilities
United States
California’s three remaining youth prisons closed their reinforced steel doors for good today, marking the demise of what was once the nation’s largest network of youth prisons.
Norway: bridging the gap
Interview
Europe
Facilities
Social ties
Rehabilitation
Norway
WayBack is a non-profit organisation, whose objective is to help prisoners reintegrate into society. Prison Insider met with Johan Lothe, the director of WayBack Oslo, to discuss his unique perspective on supporting prisoners in their transition to freedom. Interview.
North America
Justice
Facilities
United States
The state cut incarceration in half, while crime plummeted.
Europe
Material conditions
Facilities
Bosnia & Herzegovina
The construction of the prison complex on Igman is a project that has been announced for decades.
South America
Facilities
Rehabilitation
Brazil
Facilities run by a local non-profit focus on rehabilitation over punishment, in a method that has expanded worldwide.
USA: disaster in prison
Interview
Changing the scale
Thematic paper
South America
Europe
Facilities
Social ties
Alternatives
Rehabilitation
New insights are arising concerning alternative forms of detention that are integrated into the community, small-scale and focused on the needs of individuals. This series explores experience from the field, ideas that remain on paper and the potential limits of “small-scale” detention.
Filming the obscurity
Interview
Africa
Asia
Europe
Facilities
Overcrowding
Violence
Rehabilitation
The Netflix documentary series “Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons” gives viewers a visual representation of what daily life is like for prisoners around the world. Prison Insider met its host, Raphael Rowe. Interview.
Middle East
Material conditions
Facilities
Turkey
Inmates in a prison in western Turkey’s Kütahya province have limited access to water, the Bold Medya news website reported
Central America and the Caribbean
Facilities
El Salvador
Conditions inside a huge new mega-prison designed to house 40,000 alleged gang members will be particularly severe.
France: "a change of tactics"
Interview
Europe
Justice
Material conditions
Facilities
Overcrowding
Alternatives
France
In 2020, the French government was found to have violated the European Convention on Human Rights, due to demeaning detention conditions in French prisons. What is the state of affairs today? The National Human Rights Advisory Commission speaks on the issue.
France: “Non-places"
Insights
Focus
A prison in the City
Insights
The Move
Insights
From City to City
Opinion
Facilities
Overcrowding
Social ties
Canada
Walls that move: with every transfer, prisoners in Quebec travel hundreds of kilometres crammed into vans.