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France: Concertina, the second edition
Interview
21 July 2022. After a resounding success in 2021, this year's summer gatherings focused on imprisonment, Concertina, seeks to address the deprivation of freedom in relation to the longing to escape.
Lockdown is not imprisonment!
Interview
21 July 2022. The coronavirus lockdown in France lasted almost two months. For 55 days, the country’s inhabitants were only allowed to go outside if it was strictly necessary. Now that the lockdown is gradually being lifted, two geography researchers discuss this restriction of liberty.
Africa: the threat of punishment
Interview
11 July 2022. The history of prisons in Africa remains unknown. Marie Morelle addressed the subject alongside a team of researchers who documented the existing prison and criminal justice systems. She co-directed "l’Afrique en prisons". Prison Insider asked her three questions.
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Lebanon: using theatre as therapy in prison
Theatre comes to Lebanese prisons. Catharsis is an organisation that offers drama therapy workshops in prisons. Its director Zeina Daccache produced documentaries about three such projects that took place in prisons.
UK: finding an outlet
Noel Smith learned to read and write while serving time in prison. Today, he is an author and editor for Inside Time, a newspaper published for prisoners that also serves as a platform for them to speak out. He shared with us his story.
Lebanon: liberty in dreams
Hussein is incarcerated at Roumieh central prison. He told Prison Insider about his daily life: a life where liberty only exists in his dreams.
France: everyday madness
Like at many other facilities, no two days are the same at the Baumettes Regional Mental Health Department for Prisons (Marseille). Eric Kania has been a psychiatrist there for over 20 years. He told us about his day-to-day.Recently
News
Ecuador: al menos 13 muertos por una nueva masacre entre reclusos en una cárcel
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Ecuador: thirteen killed in prison riot
Thirteen prisoners were killed at a prison in the Ecuadorean city of Santo Domingo on Monday, Ecuador’s prison agency said, the latest incident of deadly jail violence in the Andean country. The government of conservative President Guillermo Lasso attributes prison violence to fights between gangs…Source — Reuters
Équateur : treize morts dans un nouvel affrontement en prison
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Russia: the country recruits prisoners en masse for Ukraine deployment
Representatives from the Kremlin-linked Wagner private military contractor and Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) are reportedly offering convicts deployment or work on restoring and demining occupied Ukrainian territories. According to Gulagu.net, the recruitment campaigns took place recently…Source — The Moscow Times
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Denmark: on behalf of prisoners
Interview
4 July 2022. Henrick used to be a spokesperson in a Danish prison. How are the spokespersons elected? What value do they bring to the prisons and to the prisoners? He shared his views and experience with us. Interview.
Canada: "a drop in the ocean"
interview
4 July 2022. Canadian prisons are facing challenges in dealing with the epidemic. How does the Canadian prison system work? How are the authorities responding to the health crisis?
Algeria: seeing things from the other side
Interview
27 June 2022. Rachid M. was imprisoned in Algeria from 1996 to 1999. After previously discussing the conditions in prison and what Ramadan is like there, he now talks about his release and his human rights activism.
Palestine: death penalty in a forgotten country
Interview
22 June 2022. 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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Sierra Leone
Virginie de Galzain
Madagascar
Carlos Hernandez
Venezuela
Sarah Bones
United States of America
Jérémie Jung
Latvia
Cosmin Bumbut
Romania
Stephen Tourlentes
United States of America
Augustin Le Gall
Tunisia
Fernando Moleres
Sierra Leone
Sebastien van Malleghem
Belgium
Seyi Rhodes, reporter
Haiti
Pierre Duvert
Madagascar
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Belarus
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Burundi
Grégoire Korganow
France
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Breaking the Circle
Minors released from prison have no access to reentry programs. Some go back to the streets and try to survive; others receive support from various organisations.
Prisons of Madagascar
“Overcrowding, the stench of urine as soon as you cross the threshold, rats and vermin everywhere…” Virginie de Galzain
The Franklin Masacre survivors
Carlos Hernandez photographed the men who survived Franklin Masacre’s reign over the General Penitentiary of Venezuela.
Story of Earl Reinhardt
While seeking out a subject for a report on aging detainees, Sarah Bones meets Earl, who has spent the past 50 of his 75 years behind bars.
Pāri mūriem
Behind the walls of the juvenile detention centre of Cēsis, the prisoners are getting bored. Jérémie Jung leads photography workshops with 10 of them but is confronted with censorship by the prison administration.
Camera intimă
Conjugal visits are allowed for prisoners and take place in private rooms, located inside the prison compound. Cosmin Bumbut photographed those places, when they were empty.
Of Lengths and Measures
When nights start to fall, prisons still glow on the outskirts of towns. Stephen Tourlentes unveils the architectural stigma of incarceration.
Cinema in prison
Four Tunisian prisons host screenings at a film festival. Augustin Le Gall, a photojournalist, brings back a sample of the wind of freedom that blew into Borj Erroumi prison.
Waiting for Justice
Children are incarcerated illegally in the maximum security prison of Pademba, in Sierra Leone. Fernando Moleres shares with us the daily lives of the minors in the Prison of Freetown.
Prisons
Being deprived of freedom causes extreme distress. The images by Sebastien van Malleghem denounce the archaic and opaque walls which enclose these men and women and their broken lives.
Forgotten prisoners
Prisoners are waiting. Most of them will never be judged because their files are missing. Many will die.
Seyi Rhodes, reporter, comments on photographs he has taken inside the Port-au-Prince prison.
Captured childhood
More than one million children are imprisonned throughout the world, according to UNICEF. In Madagascar, a large majority of them are yet to be judged.
Pierre Duvert captures their everyday life.
Welcome to LTP
In Belarus, people are locked up to wean them off alcohol. These are strange places where time seems to have stopped after the fall of Soviet Union.
The Dungeon
Children languishing in dark cells. They are victims of alleged arbitrary justice, and they spend years without seeing the inside of a courtroom.
Prisons
From 2011 to 2014, Grégoire Korganow went inside some 20 corrections facilities and photographed everything he saw: inside the cells, courtyard, visitation booths, showers, solitary confinement block, and more, by day and by night.
Prison Stories
The everyday lives of inmates, guards and visitors.
