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Prisons

July 2024

  • A hand holds a photograph up to the camera of a severely emaciated man sitting with his back to the camera on a bed

    Rights and freedom
    ‘One goal is to destroy Ukrainian identity’: the haunting images of Russia’s prisoners of war

  • A windowless tiled room with a barred gate. The metal reinforcements for the derelict concrete walls can be seen

    Torture, starvation, rape: Moi’s Kenya and the dark legacy of Nyayo House

March 2024

  • People in matching green T-shirts stand among plants in a nursery

    Left to rot: how a prisoner cleaned up Panama’s dirtiest jail – and its inmates

    La Joyita prison was notorious for its squalor but a recycling scheme has helped rehabilitate inmates and eased gang fights

February 2024

  • 'Lucy' at her home in a slum in Kolkata, India

    ‘The staff get hush money’: the hidden scandal of rape in Indian prisons

    Female prisoners are ‘supplied’ to male inmates of West Bengal jails, sexual abuse is commonplace and hundreds of children are born in prison. But the women are too scared to speak out

January 2024

  • Inn Sein Jan2023

    Myanmar: three years on from the coup
    Huge and secretive prison expansion in Myanmar revealed by satellite images

    Junta’s vast programme of building prisons and labour camps raises fears of intensified crackdown against country’s pro-democracy movement

September 2023

  • Inmates at El Buen Pastor women’s prison in Bogota, Colombia.

    Opinion
    I spent nine years in a Colombian women’s prison. This is what I learned

    Claudia Cardona
  • An inmate speaking through a walkie-talkie on the roof of Turi prison in Cuenca

    Guards and police released after being held hostage in Ecuadorian prisons

July 2023

  • Women chat as they lie in beds placed in the communal area outside cells, due to overcrowding at the Los Angeles County Women's jail in Lynwood, California.

    Alarming rise of women in prison must be addressed, rights summit told

    Numbers of jailed women rising far faster than men and their voices must be heard, say rights groups and former prisoners

June 2023

  • A woman cries after recognising her daughter among the 46 women killed in a prison riot, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on 21 June.

    Gang members locked women in cells before Honduras prison riot fire

    Armed people went into rival gang’s cell block, opened fire and used oil to set fire, police officer says after 46 women killed

  • Honduras families seek answers after women die in prison riot – video report

    At least 41 women killed in uprising blamed on crackdown on illicit activities inside country’s prisons
  • Relatives of inmates of the Women's Center for Social Adaptation (CEFAS) prison crie outside the detention center after a fire following a brawl between inmates in Tamara, some 25 kilometers from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on June 20, 2023. Clashes between rival gangs at a woman's prison in Honduras left at least 41 people dead Tuesday, police told AFP. The violence took place at a prison some 25 kilometers (about 15 miles) north of the capital Tegucigalpa, according to police spokesman Edgardo Barahona, who put the "preliminary" toll at 41. (Photo by Orlando SIERRA / AFP) (Photo by ORLANDO SIERRA/AFP via Getty Images)

    ‘Monstrous murder’: 46 women killed in Honduras prison riot

    Some women were burned to death in uprising blamed on crackdown on illicit activities inside of the country’s prisons

April 2023

  • An instructor speaks with young participants

    En garde! Fencing helps young Senegalese play by the rules

    Teaching young offenders and others the sport has been so successful at instilling self-discipline and respect that the scheme is expanding

February 2023

  • Suspected gang members wait to be taken to their cells in the ‘Terrorism Confinement Centre’.

    El Salvador moves suspected gang members to 40,000-capacity ‘megaprison’

  • César Aréchiga’s portraits of his art students in Puente Grande prison in Mexico.

    The long read
    Portrait of a killer: art class in one of Mexico’s most notorious prisons

January 2023

  • The Paremoremo maximum-security wing at Auckland prison.

    ‘People don’t want to spend money on law breakers’: staff shortages send New Zealand’s prisons to crisis point

    Vacant positions mean that some prisoners spend 23 hours a day locked in their cells while others face months-long delays to parole hearings

November 2022

  • A man's feet with a tattoo of gallows on one

    Rights and freedom
    Under the shadow of death: prisoners who escaped execution in Iran

  • Pope Francis poster outside a cathedral in Manama, Bahrain

    Bahraini death row prisoner pleads with pope to aid his release

October 2022

  • Portrait of a young Egyptian activist, Sanaa Seif, photographed in her friend's garden in London.

    ‘From my cell I could see people being tortured’: Sanaa Seif on fleeing Egypt – and fighting to free her brother

    Since becoming swept up in the revolution of 2011, the British-Egyptian dissident has been imprisoned three times. Now in London, she is campaigning for the release of her brother, Alaa Abd El-Fattah, one of the country’s most high-profile political prisoners

June 2022

  • Inmates at a jail in Bogotá, Colombia.

    Fifty-one inmates die in Colombia prison riot

    Prisons agency boss says fire broke out after inmates lit mattresses during protest at jail in Tuluá

May 2022

  • six men pose for the camera

    Inside tracks: the recording studio offering musical escape in a Cameroon prison

    As Jail Time Records releases its fifth single, imprisoned and recently released artists describe how making music has changed their lives
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