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Interview

March 25, 2025

The root cause of prison escapes

Thousands of incarcerated people have escaped from Haitian prisons over recent months, but what sparked this trend? Roberson Édouard from the Centre for Research and Exchange on Security and Justice gives us the answer.

Testimonial

March 17, 2025

A chain of imprisonment

Soheil Arabi is an Iranian blogger and photojournalist. He has been imprisoned for several years for his activism. Some time ago, Soheil contacted us to tell his story. We share it with you here.

Analysis

March 1, 2025

Women bearing the weight of the law

More and more women across the world are being imprisoned, mostly for minor, non-violent offences. What discriminatory and punitive logic is being applied? What is being done to fight back against it?

Testimonial

February 26, 2025

Türkiye: broken spirits

Berfin A. spent two years in prison, accused of showing propaganda videos to a number of students. She was subjected to various forms of torture while incarcerated. She shares with us her traumatic experience. Testimonial.

Testimonial

February 25, 2025

Language in the French reintegration programme

Thibaut Caudal authored a thesis on the meaning of custodial sentences and reintegration. This research led him to design a method for teaching French to people in prison at La Santé in Paris. Testimony.

Portfolio

February 13, 2025

Flight

A group of incarcerated people at the Meaux-Chauconin prison is collaborating with photographer Louis Bontemps on a photographic series, putting into images their impressions and feelings since the moment of their incarceration.

March 1, 2025

Women bearing the weight of the law

More and more women across the world are being imprisoned, mostly for minor, non-violent offences. What discriminatory and punitive logic is being applied? What is being done to fight back against it?

Testimonials

Prison narratives

March 17, 2025

A chain of imprisonment

Soheil Arabi is an Iranian blogger and photojournalist. He has been imprisoned for several years for his activism. Some time ago, Soheil contacted us to tell his story. We share it with you here.

February 26, 2025

Türkiye: broken spirits

Berfin A. spent two years in prison, accused of showing propaganda videos to a number of students. She was subjected to various forms of torture while incarcerated. She shares with us her traumatic experience. Testimonial.

February 25, 2025

Language in the French reintegration programme

Thibaut Caudal authored a thesis on the meaning of custodial sentences and reintegration. This research led him to design a method for teaching French to people in prison at La Santé in Paris. Testimony.

January 30, 2025

United States: building bonds, one letter at a time

Since 1992, ACAT-France has been facilitating letter exchanges between volunteers or supporters and people on death row. These letters are rooted in solidarity, faith and connection. A five-part interview.

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Perspectives

October 15, 2021

Europe: questioning the use of pre-trial detention

Laure Baudrihaye-Gérard, European legal director of Fair Trials, and Diana Riba i Giner MEP (Greens/EFA), discuss the potential normalisation of digital hearings in the wake of the pandemic, and the over-use of pre-trial detention.

October 15, 2021

Latin America: pre-trial detention and access to justice

October 15, 2021

South Africa: criminalizing poverty and homelessness

October 15, 2021

Solitary confinement, COVID-19 and mental health impacts

October 15, 2021

Brazil: the impact of COVID-19 on family links and prison monitoring

Prison news

Press Review

March 24, 2025

Italy: prison suicides up to 24 so far this year after 3 in a day

There have been 24 suicides in Italy’s prisons so far this year after three imprisoned people took their own lives in jails in Avellino, Genoa and Trieste, penitentiary police union SPP said. The union said that, at this rate, last year’s record of 91 prison suicides will be broken in 2025.

March 22, 2025

India: National Prison Conference calls for urgent reforms, stresses need for psychologists in prisons

March 22, 2025

United Kingdom: overdose kit not issued on prison release

March 22, 2025

Türkiye: hundreds arrested in protests against the detention of Istanbul's mayor

March 21, 2025

Salvador: why experts fear the men who were sent to the megraprison may never make it out

March 21, 2025

United Arab Emirates: 25 Indians awarded death sentence

March 20, 2025

United Kingdom: overcrowded jails are more violent, study finds

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Testimonial

February 25, 2025

Language in the French reintegration programme

Thibaut Caudal authored a thesis on the meaning of custodial sentences and reintegration. This research led him to design a method for teaching French to people in prison at La Santé in Paris. Testimony.

Analysis

October 17, 2024

Who benefits from prison?

Prison Insider hosted a workshop at this year’s edition of Concertina on the human and social cost of prison in Haiti, Tunisia, Morocco, and France. Learn more about the key points of this discussion.

February 13, 2025

Flight

A group of incarcerated people at the Meaux-Chauconin prison is collaborating with photographer Louis Bontemps on a photographic series, putting into images their impressions and feelings since the moment of their incarceration.

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