Empty Bunks, New Prisons: Why Does Russia Need Seven Super-Prisons If Its Prison Population Has Fallen Fourfold?

The Russian authorities have officially announced plans to build an entire complex of new prisons. By 2035, the Federal Penitentiary Service of the

How to Ensure That Prisoners Have Access to the Protection of Their Rights: an Online Conference on Prisoners’ Access to Justice

We are pleased to invite you to an online conference on #prisoners’ access to #justice, organised by the European Prison Litigation Network, the

The Torture Quasi-Compromise During Mobilisation: From “Busification” to Systemic Violations of Article 3 ECHR

The absolute prohibition of torture is an unconditional and immeasurably important idea of modern constitutionalism and international human rights law. It is not

Dmytro Yagunov: Carceral orders: informal prison hierarchies in contemporary Europe and the political weaponisation of prison subculture

This paper examines informal prison hierarchies in contemporary Europe as sites of political power, social ordering, and geopolitical contestation, with particular focus on

The Odesa Pre-Trial Detention Centre: How “Institutional Security” Became the Official Pretext for Concealing Deaths, Suicides, and Torture

On 4 August 2026 I submitted a request for public information to the South-Central Interregional Directorate for the Execution of Criminal Punishments of

Rita Haverkamp, Dmytro Yagunov: The Carceral Continuum – How Transitions Have Reshaped Social Control in Eastern Europe

The countries of Eastern Europe constitute a unique setting for studying profound transformations of social control. In no other region of the world