The Yard: How small scale detention works and why this knowledge is important.
The other day, an article in a local newspaper[1] caught my interest. The heading read: “Staff and prisoners have improved the yard”[2]. The article described…
The other day, an article in a local newspaper[1] caught my interest. The heading read: “Staff and prisoners have improved the yard”[2]. The article described…
From numerous studies, we know that people who are imprisoned consistently present poorer (mental) health compared to the general population (Vander Laenen & Audenaert, 2017;…
Most of us want to live a long life, but very few want to grow old, goes a traditional saying. This is hardly surprising when…
Article 5.1. of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) provides that no one shall be deprived of his liberty, save in specific cases and…
People in prison lose autonomy and agency over many aspects of their lives, usually including food production and consumption. In this blog, Sabrina Puddu examines…
Prisons are highly potent but highly damaging institutions, both symbolically and in their real effects. Prisons are especially potent in “producing prisoners”, that means persons…
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