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| Prisoners take in the sun after being let out of their cells in the
morning. |
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| A prisoner in the Maula Prison sweeps the grounds outside his cell after
being let out in the morning. Prisoners spend 14 hours each day packed on the concrete
floors of their cells. |
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| Prisoners wash the floor of a cell with a rolled-up carpet. |
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| Under the eye of a guard, a prisoner in Malawi, where prisoners can be
incarcerated without trial for years, carries a log to cut into firewood. |
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| The only food in the prison is nsima, com must leavened with beans or
meat from the prison rabbit hutch. |
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| The prisoners supplement their rations by food that is given to them by
visitors or grown on the prison grounds. |
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| A prisoner rubs soap in his hair to assist the growth of his deadlocks. |
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| The men spend the daytime in the prison yard, a field of thick yellow dust with an
outdoor privy, a communal shower and one water spicot. Here, a prisoner hands up his
washed clothes on a fence. |
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| The prisoners attend school in an empty prison building. The teacher is also a
prisoner. |
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| Lackson Sikayayenera in his cell at Malua Prison, where he has been for six years. His
case file has been lost. |
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| The most immediate and apparent inhumanity is the overcrowding that Africa's broken
systems breed, compounded by disease, filth, abuse, and a lack of food, soap, beds clothes
or reception. |
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