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Published in: Home: Feature‘We just got left’: How children of prisoners are abandoned by the stateThe government has no statutory duty to identify or support children whose parents are in prison. Why not?
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureThe mental health crisis in women’s prisonsExperts slam the government’s £1.5m plan to create more jail places in England as prisoners’ self-harm rates soar
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Published in: Home: NewsPrisoners still being locked up for 23 hours a day despite record self-harmPrisoners are spending long hours in overcrowded cells without any rehabilitation activities, damning new reports warn
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureWomen and LGBTQ people caught up in El Salvador’s state of emergencyGovernment’s anti-gang measures are threatening the innocent, vulnerable and marginalised, say human rights groups
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureFamily’s plea over Belgian-Tunisian woman found dead in police cellSourour Abouda is the third person of North African descent to die in unexplained circumstances in Rue Royale.
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Published in: Home: NewsRacism ‘overlooked and ignored’ among UK prison deaths, says new reportFor the 22 minority ethnic people highlighted in a new report from INQUEST, imprisonment was a death sentence
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Published in: Home: NewsHundreds have spent 15 years in jail under abolished indefinite sentencesExclusive: Revelation will put pressure on incoming justice secretary to deal with legacy of ‘IPP’ jail terms
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationPrisoners ‘may have been refused parole due to fake crimes on files’Exclusive: Claim comes as Labour, Lib Dems, Greens and SNP add to pressure for those serving ‘inhuman’ indefinite...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationFamilies’ plea over ‘barbaric’ indefinite prison sentences for minor crimesExclusive: Thousands left in English and Welsh prisons without release dates, despite controversial indefinite...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: InvestigationThe Yemeni women and girls being illegally imprisonedWomen are being illegally detained for not having a male relative to whom they could be released or even under the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSyrian prison literature and human rights: an interview with Shareah TaleghaniLiterature about prison has actually assisted international campaigns in the release of individual detainees.
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Published in: Migrant FuturesCOVID-19 reveals the inherent vindictiveness of migration detentionThe COVID-19 pandemic is exposing the glaring injustices of the immigration detention system.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaOn death row in Saudi Arabia: forgotten Pakistani prisonersSaudi Arabia executes more Pakistanis than any other nationality, but Pakistan continues to fail its citizens in...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaPalmyra: Tadmor and a very different heritageThe ancient city of Palmyra is also home to Tadmor prison, and was lost to us long before IS.
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Published in: TransformationTo remain in prison for the rest of my life is the greatest honor you could give me: the story of Sister Megan RiceWhere does moral courage come from - the energy and strength to challenge and transform much larger powers? A prison...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSyria, storytelling, and all things between: a meta-commentary on ‘the Prisoner Series’Al-Akhbar English (AAE) is the English branch of a prominent Lebanese newspaper, Al-Akhbar. During the second week...
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Published in: TransformationPrisoner X and the British Guantanamo BayWorking as a writer in residence at prisons, I have been advised not to "fight" if an inmate takes me hostage and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKInspector "very concerned" by G4S prison praised by GraylingChris Grayling discribed G4S run prison HMP Oakwood as an "excellent model for the future of the prison service"....
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Published in: oDRIn memoriam Valery Abramkin, Russia's prison reformerCelebrated Russian activist Valery Abramkin has died aged 66. Here we republish extracts from a lecture delivered in...
