Testimonials
Interviews
Prison Insider reaches out to individuals with expertise on prison. Researchers, members of associations and institutions, decision-makers, stakeholders and individuals called to intervene in prisons: they all offer diverse viewpoints on imprisonment. This section offers untold insights and specialist opinions exploring various prison-related issues.
Africa
Coronavirus
Pre-trial detention
Minors
Access to legal rights
Health
Material conditions
Social ties
Togo
What is the response to offences committed by minors? In many cases, it is detention. Civil society actors express concern over the situation of minors in conflict with the law. Three key questions shed light on this issue.
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Africa
Culture
Asia
Europe
Middle East
Access to legal rights
Justice
Health
Drugs
Overcrowding
Rehabilitation
Dr. Dreisinger is the founder of the Incarceration Nations Network (INN), an international community that works to support, instigate and popularize prison reform efforts around the world. Prison Insider met her in Lyon during a joint screening of the docuseries. We asked her three questions in a v…
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Pakistan: submerged and forgotten
Interview
Asia
Access to legal rights
Health
Material conditions
Pakistan
Pakistan experienced torrential rains between June and September 2022. The floods submerged a third of the country. What about prisons? Zainab Mahboob and Fakhra Irshad from Justice Project Pakistan shared with us what they know about the current situation. Interview.
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Culture
LGBTI
Death penalty
Germany
The fight to end capital punishment is far from over but progress continues to be made. Over a thousand attendees are expected to converge on the German capital in November 2022 for the 8th World Congress against the Death Penalty. The assembly aims to unite individuals around the global issue of a…
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Ukraine: news from the front lines
Interview
Africa
Minors
Access to legal rights
Justice
Guinea
Nordine Drici is a historian and legal expert on prisoners’ rights. He wrote an overview of the penitentiary situation in Guinea, examining access to justice in the country. This expert evaluation formed part of a training programme (under the RESPECT project) that he provided for Lawyers Without B…
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Africa: the threat of punishment
Interview
Africa
Justice
Alternatives
Rehabilitation
The prison and criminal justice systems established on the African continent during the colonisation raise many questions.The book « L’Afrique en prisons » proposes to distinguish and rethink a coercive system based on the threat of punishment. Interview.
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Denmark: on behalf of prisoners
Interview
Canada: "a drop in the ocean"
Interview
Coronavirus
North America
Health
Facilities
Overcrowding
Canada
“Since prisons are such confined and notoriously unsanitary places, vaccinating the prisoners was an urgent matter. At the very least, vaccinating the oldest and most vulnerable among them was a top priority.”
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Pre-trial detention
Asia
Middle East
Overcrowding
Death penalty
Human rights organisations in the region feel like they are fighting alone against capital punishment. People are still sentenced to death and executed regularly. What is the situation in Palestine?
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Europe
Material conditions
Facilities
Overcrowding
France
Thierry Chantegret is a photographer with the French National Preventive Mechanism team. He spoke with us about the role of photography, his approach, and how he gets down to the facts.
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USA: inside the kids’ cells
Interview
North America
Minors
Material conditions
United States
They are 60,000. Who? The minors incarcerated in America’s prisons. Richard Ross is a photographer. His ‘Juvenile in Justice’ work has been giving them a voice for the past two decades.
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Tunisia: Silent abuses
Interview
Middle East
LGBTI
Justice
Violence
Tunisia
Arbitrary detention, lack of medical care, stigmatisation, and violence: LGBTQI++ prisoners are subjected to all kinds of untold abuse.
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Ukraine: “prisons are left on their own”
Interview
Europe
Material conditions
Facilities
Violence
Social ties
Ukraine
Information about prison is not easily accessible, even less during the war. Prison Insider is seeking to update its information about Ukrainian prisons.
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Belgium: prison within prison
Interview
Europe
Discipline
Mental health
Material conditions
Belgium
When can someone be sent to solitary confinement? A new report strongly criticises the use of solitary confinement and the conditions of detention observed there. Interview.
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Senegal: out of step, outlawed
Interview
Africa
LGBTI
Justice
Material conditions
Violence
Senegal
A new bill is looking to toughen punishment for homosexuality. There are serious concerns about detention conditions for LGBTI people. Interview.
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Asia
Access to legal rights
Justice
Material conditions
Death penalty
Japan
Death penalty is an ongoing issue despite international criticism. What is the current situation in Japan regarding the death penalty?
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Europe
Access to legal rights
Justice
Health
Mental health
Switzerland
Psychiatric expertise has grown in the last few years, especially in assessing recidivism risk. Can risk really be predicted? Interview.
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Europe
Health
Mental health
Suicide
France
Fresnes, Fleury-Mérogis, la Santé: for 25 years, Cyrille Canetti witnessed the shift of prison psychiatry. (Critical) interview about psychiatry and prison.
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