Testimonials
Insights
Various insights and crossed viewpoints are an invitation to grasp what imprisonment means. Photography, video, graphic and artwork provide stories that give flesh and meaning to our information.
France: “Non-places"
Insights
Focus
A prison in the City
Insights
The Move
Insights
France: in search of freedom
Insights
Focus
"These two photos were my first introduction to prison life"
Insights
Focus
Europe
Material conditions
Facilities
France
“I had barely taken a step inside when a rat jumped out of the toilet bowl and landed on my feet…”
Thierry Chantegret is a photographer. He joined, in 2021, the team of the Controller-General for Places of Deprivation of Liberty (CGLPL). He comments, for Prison Insider, two of his photos.
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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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Lockdown is not imprisonment!
Insights
Coronavirus
Discipline
Justice
Material conditions
Alternatives
France
Finally free? Two researchers discuss the parallels between lockdown and incarceration. In their opinion, comparisons with prison are misleading.
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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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