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Testimonials

First-hand reports: testimonials convey voices that are often silenced. Prison Insider welcomes stories of resistance and provides a venue for prisoners and loved ones to express their sadness and share their joys.

October 10, 2019

Japan: ”her present fate is to rot in solitude”

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Women Asia Death penalty Japan

C. Hayashi has been visiting his mother on death row for 16 years. He talks about her conditions of detention.

June 6, 2019

Japan: time is money

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Asia Japan

Geoffrey is incarcerated in Osaka prison. He describes, for Prison Insider, one working day.

April 24, 2019

Japan: "ridiculously crazy, but true!"

Testimonial

Asia Japan

“We are only allowed five letters per month.” Geoffrey is incarcerated in Osaka. He wrote to Prison Insider. Abstracts.

December 26, 2018

Japan: deprivation of liberty, deprivation of humanity

Testimonial

Asia Japan

Geoffrey is currently incarcerated in Osaka prison. He tells, for Prison Insider, what any day in a Japanese prison looks like.

October 9, 2018

Japan: frozen time, frozen days

Testimonial

Asia Japan

Geoffrey is currently incarcerated in Osaka prison. He tells, for Prison Insider, what a day looks like. But not any day: weekends and holidays, when time seems to stop.

April 23, 2018

Japan: a voice coming out of isolation

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Asia Discipline Japan

“Every day, I took many tranquillisers”. Testimonial of M. Iwazaki, imprisoned for 15 years in a prison in Chiba (Japan)