Mental health
Connecting Stories Beyond Bars
America
Pre-trial detention
Women
Europe
Long-term prisoners
Access to legal rights
Mental health
Material conditions
Violence
Social ties
‘Connecting Stories Beyond Bars - The invisible impact of prison on relatives’ is a six-episode docuseries produced with Acifad (Argentina), Amparar (Brasil), Relais Famille (Canada), OIP-SF (France), Documenta (Mexico) and POPS (UK).
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Europe
Mental health
United Kingdom
Growing number of people in England and Wales are being released into homelessness with little support
North America
Mental health
Violence
United States
Mina Corpuz with Mississippi Today and Daja E. Henry with The Marshall Project review their deep-dive reporting into suicides in Mississippi’s prisons. Inmates — including those known to pose harm to themselves — are often locked away in solitary confinement without adequate checks on their wellbei…
Scotland: “A state of permanent hyperawareness”
Testimonial
Europe
Health
Mental health
Material conditions
Facilities
Social ties
Rehabilitation
United Kingdom
John has been incarcerated for nearly twenty years since the age of 16. Now a husband, a father, and a PhD researcher, he shares his story with us — from his time behind bars to how prison still impacts him today. Interview.
Crises
Asia
Europe
Health
Mental health
Suicide
Russia
According to data from the human rights organization Memorial, more than 5,000 people in Russia are victims of political repression. At least 68 of them have died in custody over the past decade and a half, including at least six since the start of 2026.
Asia
Europe
Mental health
Suicide
Overcrowding
Armenia
On March 20, an incarcerated person at the Armavir penitentiary institution attempted suicide by hanging, drawing renewed attention to deteriorating conditions and safety standards in Armenia’s prison system.
Europe
Discipline
Health
Mental health
Material conditions
Suicide
Torture
Social ties
Belarus
United Nations experts expressed concern over allegations of prolonged incommunicado detention and dire custody conditions in Belarus that may amount to torture.
Asia
Health
Mental health
Material conditions
Suicide
India
The National Humans Rights Commission raised serious concerns about living conditions, healthcare and human rights violations inside the state’s prison system.
America
Crises
Foreign prisoners
Mental health
Torture
Venezuela
Nahuel Gallo, the Argentine Board Guard officer who was freed after 448 days in a Venezuelan prison said that he had been held in a facility of “psychological torture.”
Europe
Health
Mental health
Material conditions
Suicide
Overcrowding
Activities
United Kingdom
A Glasgow prison is “breaching core human rights” and its incarcerated people are “unable to shower daily”, according to a new report on Scottish prisons.
America
Crises
Women
Justice
Mental health
Facilities
Suicide
Social ties
Mexico
Designed as a maximum security facility, Cefereso No. 16 is Mexico’s only federal women’s prison, and concern over its living conditions is rising. Interview with Algaraza.
America
Mental health
Suicide
United States
Some welcome the resource while others fear violations of privacy and punishment for sharing their thoughts.
America
Minors
Health
Mental health
Material conditions
Haiti
The conditions of detention are marked by serious deficiencies in sanitation, food, and social services, and a large and vulnerable prison population.
Asia
Mental health
Material conditions
Torture
Social ties
Azerbaijan
Several incarcerated journalists from the Azerbaijani independent media outlet Meydan TV have announced that they will not see their visiting relatives in protest against the installation of a glass partition in visitation rooms.
America
Justice
Mental health
United States
The number of Missourians waiting in jail for services from the state’s mental health department continues to rise, with a backlog of more than 500 people with stalled cases.
America
Pre-trial detention
Women
Mental health
Drugs
Overcrowding
Argentina
Prison population grew 7.1% in 2024, with property crimes and short sentences driving overcrowding; five provinces exceed the national incarceration average, authorities warn that tougher laws and short sentences are fuelling sustained rise in numbers.
Women
Europe
Mental health
Suicide
Rehabilitation
United Kingdom
Fraser Maclean, policy manager at Commonweal Housing, writes about why women face challenges to the greatest extent after leaving prison.
Women
Mental health
Material conditions
Social ties
United States
The conditions at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility are akin to solitary confinement, local experts say — an apparent violation of state law.