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Gary Knight at Polinter Prison, Rio de Janeiro

98 prisoners are kept in a cell measuring 25 square meters originally designed for 16 inmates. The longest-serving prisoner in one of these cells has been there for 5 years. The prisoners are locked up...

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Jacko and the Detournement of Race

We are all agreed: Michael Jackson’s death is a sad event. Firstly because he was young, secondly because he runs through our cultural DNA and thirdly because we never really managed to fully...

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Inmate Self-Documentation and Overturning the ‘Exotic Fetish’

Often it seems photographs of South American prisons are presented in North American media only to emphasise the gulf that exists between the conditions of incarceration in the two regions. I have...

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