Tag: prison
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Photo Series Explores What Prison Cells Look Like Around The World
According to the Institute for Criminal Policy Research, over 10.35 million individuals are being held in prisons around the world, either as pre-trial detainees/remand prisoners or having been convicted and sentenced. In comparison to the year 2000, the total number of women serving time has increased about 50% while the male prison population has grown…
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Photographer Captures the Creepy Gaze of Serial Killers in Prison
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David Tesinsky is an independent photographer from Prague who focuses on the subcultures, urban cultures, street stories and people's stories in general. His most recent project was a documentary portrait series where he captured the gaze of women and men convicted for life inside a prison in Kharkiv, Eastern Ukraine. We'll let the images speak…
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The Last Meals Of Death-Row Inmates Photographed by Henry Hargreaves
There are about as many opinions on capital punishment as there are prisoners on death row, but most can agree that it’s a sobering practice. New Zealand-based artist Henry Hargreaves explores the death penalty and our reaction to it in his gripping “No Second” photo series where he re-creates the final meals of inmates executed…
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10 Things Schapelle Corby May Not Know Exists
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll know that convicted Australian drug smuggler Schapelle Corby has just been granted parole after nine years in an Indonesian jail. Corby was convicted and sentenced in 2005 for the importation of 4.2 kg of cannabis into Bali, Indonesia. Between 2005 and today, we have witnessed a series of…
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Prison Tattoos and Their Secret Meanings
The trend for tattoos is not exactly breaking news. In the last couple of years, tatts have gone from somewhat of a fad to a raging, unstoppable pandemic. Whether you get a tattoo to express your individuality, for artistic expression, or just because Bieber got one, there is no denying its popularity. We recently discovered…
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40 Candid Mugshots of Dapper Criminals from the 1920s
Between 1910 and 1930, a series of 2500 ‘special photographs’ were taken by the New South Wales Police Department. As curator Peter Doyle of the Justice & Police Museum in Sydney explains: These ‘special photographs’ were mostly taken in the cells at the Central Police Station in Sydney and are of men and women recently plucked from…