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Instead of the claimed “rehabilitation,” the Belarusian penitentiary system systematically destroys an individual’s everyday independence. Strict control, the breakdown of...

What happens when an incarcerated woman needs medical care? In a Belarusian penal colony, even an attempt to see a...

There is a popular myth that prisoners in penal colonies live and eat at taxpayers’ expense. However, the reality is...

Former political prisoner and human rights defender Marfa Rabkova, who served her sentence in a female penal colony, described in...

For a woman behind bars, her family and children represent the most precious, yet also the most vulnerable, part of...

Love remains the primary tool that prevents the penitentiary system from completely destroying a woman’s individuality in detention. It is...

Four years of imprisonment mean thousands of nights filled with the exact same dream: to simply embrace loved ones and...

Today, within the context of resocialization, we examine one of the most closed topics of the contemporary Belarusian penitentiary system:...

In the previous episode, we talked about the bureaucratic “bunch” of issues that greets a woman upon her release: supervision,...

Our human rights information materials are, as a rule, not only saturated with factual data but also vividly charged with...