Argentina
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Argentina : inmates live with rats, bats and garbage in jails
“The nation’s prisons will be healthy and clean, since they are for security purposes and not to punish the convicts held in them”, the Argentine constitution says, but the fact is that inmates in those jails share their cells with rats, cockroaches and, according to some complaints, even bats.Argentina : prisoners gain new focus through pinhole photography
“People think prison is like a horror film,” says Celeste Moyano, sitting in the library of the Unidad 31 women’s penitentiary outside Buenos Aires. She participates in a photography workshops facilitated by YoNoFui, a social organisation that runs support and education schemes for women both in an…