Testimonials
Laws are changed with data, but they are understood through stories. Here speak those who have experienced prison firsthand and those who suffered it from the outside, waiting. Real voices, because no statistic tells what a person tells.
“My son made a mistake and is paying for it, but I am serving a sentence for having loved someone who failed.”
“Even today, you have to go through a legal process to have your rights recognized and hope that the judge on duty will grant the request.”
“We were eighteen in a large cell built for six people, with only two bathrooms for everyone.”
“When I got out of prison I had lost everything I had built to get this far. My documents, my education, the future I had imagined. It wasn't the crime that took them from me. It was the system.”
“Bad mother. That was the first thing I read in everyone's eyes. Even those who were supposed to help me.”
“I never said prison saved me. I said that inside I found a book. I wish I had found it sooner.”
“We all go to mass — atheists, Muslims, evangelicals, Sinti. Not out of faith, out of convenience: forty-five minutes outside the cage. At the end, the priest says 'go in peace.' He actually says that.”