Croatia
Seen in the press
Read our selection of press reports about this country. This is a short description of prison conditions on a national scale. It gives an account of the preceding year’s events.
Croatie: end confinement of people with disabilities
Croatia’s government should end the confinement of children and adults in institutions, five disabled people’s and human rights organizations said today in a letter to Prime Minister Andrej Plenković. Despite some initial progress, the process of moving people out of institutions and into community…Source — Human Rights Watch
Croatia: see the haunting ruins of a prison once known as a "living hell"
The decrepit remains can still be seen by tourists willing to make the trek to the uninhabited island. Goli Otok was once described as a “Living Hell” by those who were unlucky enough to be sent to the prison.Source — National Geographic
Inside Croatia’s only prison for women : the anatomy of absence
Marina Paulenka’s The Other Home is an ode to Požega Penitentiary; Croatia’s only women’s prison. The Zagreb-based photographer discusses a project that seeks to question “the notions of freedom inside and outside supervisory institution’s architecture.”Source — British Journal of Photography
