Incarceration of Society: The Political Economy of the Carceral Interest
The political interest in preserving and expanding the carceral system has at least four interrelated dimensions, the manifestations of which can be traced
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 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
Dmytro Yagunov, Andrii Chernousov: A New Draft Law Concerning Places of Detention: How Penitentiary Inspection Is Being Turned into Soviet-Style Oversight
On 8 June 2026, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine submitted to the Verkhovna Rada a draft Law “On the Establishment of a
Darkness as a Management Strategy: How the Odesa Pre-Trial Detention Prison Hides Its Own Statistics
For almost 30 years I have been researching Ukraine’s penitentiary system and reforming this field. During this time much has changed – my
A Court Case on Transparency in the Prison System: Access to Statistics and a Precedent for the Whole Country
Dear friends, colleagues, everyone who is in one way or another involved in the study, analysis, and reform of Ukraine’s penitentiary system. Everyone
International Seminar “Discussions Around the Use of Solitary Confinement in Prisons” (May 8, 2026, University of Tübingen)
The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and the European Court of Human Rights in collaboration with the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen
Institutional Darkness: The Inaction of the PCMRU and Odesa SIZO as a Systemic Dysfunction of Penitentiary Oversight (Proceedings in Case No. 420/9112/26)
2 April 2026, the European Court of Human Rights delivered its judgment in Ukrayinskyy and Others v. Ukraine — 42 applicants, correctional colony
The Pre-Trial Centre as an Invisible Source of Harm in the Model of Impersonal State Liability
There is a category of legal issues that are both well-known and systematically ignored. Compensation for non-pecuniary damage caused by unlawful criminal prosecution