How Love Saves the Individual in Detention
Love remains the primary tool that prevents the penitentiary system from completely destroying a woman’s individuality in detention. It is...
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The Last Night and the First Embraces: How the Glass Between the Past and the Future Shatters
Four years of imprisonment mean thousands of nights filled with the exact same dream: to simply embrace loved ones and...
Pills Like Candy: What Happens Behind the Walls of Female Penal Colonies
Today, within the context of resocialization, we examine one of the most closed topics of the contemporary Belarusian penitentiary system:...
[Video] The Last Night in Detention and the First Embraces on the Outside: How to Adapt After Isolation
In the previous episode, we talked about the bureaucratic “bunch” of issues that greets a woman upon her release: supervision,...
The Price of a Second Chance: Why the Resocialization of Former Prisoners Benefits Both Society and the State
Our human rights information materials are, as a rule, not only saturated with factual data but also vividly charged with...
[Video] Life After the Colony: Why Freedom on the Outside in Belarus Doesn’t Mean Liberty?
When a person goes behind bars, their life is frozen, yet the world outside keeps rushing forward. What happens when...
The Next Step: How Can We Help?
…A woman is released after years in prison, but she has no identity documents, no job, no family support, no...
What Difficulties Do Women Face Upon Release from Prison in Belarus?
Today, when thousands of political prisoners are held in Belarusian prisons, and dozens of them are being released, expelled from...