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.
Choosing the angle
Insights
Focus
Türkiye: where art forms converge
Insights
Focus
Badinter, "a beacon of light in the mist"
Insights
Interview
Europe
Access to legal rights
Justice
Material conditions
Death penalty
France
Robert Badinter, a leading figure in the abolition of the death penalty in France, passed away on 9 February. Raphaël Chenuil-Hazan, director of Together Against the Death Penalty, became close with the former minister over time through their mutual cause. Here’s the story.
France: rediscovering one’s image
Insights
Focus
Facilities
Social ties
Rehabilitation
Work
France
In 2011, photographer Béatrice Ropers visited Ferme de Moyembrie, an agricultural facility that takes in men nearing the end of their sentences. As the seasons changed, the subjects of her photographs shared their life stories, feelings and fears. She told us the story of one of her photographs.
France: “Non-places"
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Focus
A prison in the city
Insights
The Move
Insights
France: in search of freedom
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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.
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.
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.
USA: reading comes at a cost
Insights
Opinion
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.
North America
South America
Asia
Europe
Middle East
We are creating a digital mural showing how people perceive prisons around the world. We invite everyone to produce a one-minute video in reply to this question: “Prison, what does it mean to you?”
How to participate
Use your smartphone. Film in horizontal format
Start recording and count two seco…
