Investigations
Prisons on the margins of European elections
Analysis
Investigations
Europe
Access to legal rights
Justice
Overcrowding
Alternatives
The citizens of the 27 member States of the European Union will go to the polls from 6 to 9 June. What role do prison issues play in the electoral campaigns?
A prison called home
Investigations
Social ties
Alternatives
Rehabilitation
Electronic monitoring allows individuals to serve their sentence at home with their family. In practice, however, the experience of electronic monitoring is a difficult undertaking. Can one’s home become a prison? What impact does surveillance have on their loved ones? Investigation.
Uruguay: The straw that broke the camel’s back
Investigations
Interview
South America
Material conditions
Protest
Violence
Uruguay
Riots provoked changes in prison.
Austria: through the lens of the incarcerated
Investigations
Coronavirus
Europe
Foreign prisoners
Overcrowding
Alternatives
Rehabilitation
Work
Austria
Prisons might be one of the most severely underreported spheres in our otherwise heavily investigated world. Journalist Sarah Yolanda Koss dives into Austrian prison issues.
Austria: Final destination, Göllersdorf
Investigations
Coronavirus
Europe
Health
Mental health
Social ties
Rehabilitation
Austria
In a tiny village in Lower Austria lies one of the country’s “special institutions for mentally abnormal, unsound offenders”. Journalist Sarah Yolanda Koss dives into the everyday life of those imprisoned in the Göllersdorfer castle.
Russia: “They’re killing us!”
News
Investigations
Austria: “Nobody knew how to deal with the virus”
Investigations
Coronavirus
Europe
Social ties
Rehabilitation
Work
Austria
Two years of Coronavirus, two incarcerated men: Journalist Sarah Yolanda Koss dives into the everyday life of two Austrian prisons.
Nowhere to turn
Investigations
Belgium: locked-up outside
Investigations
Testimonial
Europe
Long-term prisoners
Rehabilitation
Belgium
How does someone truly become free?
Marcus spent his childhood in a children’s home before serving more than 20 years in prison. He has never known anything other than confinement.
Hunger strike: a last resort for Kurdish prisoners
Investigations
Russian prisoners : backtracking
Investigations
Radio and prison
Investigations
Culture
Europe
Activities
Social ties
They get life on the outside to come inside – radio broadcasts for and by detainees and their families.
The fundamentals are often the same: anybody can call in to relay a message to a brother, a daughter, a friend in prison, or simply to express support. So, through the walls pass words of hope, o…
Children, Palestinians, Prisoners
Investigations
Different detention conditions for Palestinian prisoners
Investigations
Middle East
Access to legal rights
Justice
Torture
Violence
Israel
Nearly 7,000 Palestinian prisoners are incarcerated in Israeli prisons, under the military regime.
The facilities are located outside of the occupied territories, in total violation of international law. Arrested for political reasons, the detainees are particularly prone to arbitrary detention, to…
Madagascar
Investigations
Life imprisonment
Investigations