Summary “I was depressed and no longer went out of my cell. I just took medication and I slept. […] I didn’t even go out for walks. For six months […] I didn’t see the light of day. […] I never went out, I didn’t see a doctor or a psychiatrist.” -“Sarah,” detained in a prison in France. Spending up to 22 hours per day in a 3 by 3 meters cell. Having to share that small space with two other people. Constant noise. The inescapable smell of hundreds of people confined in a building, day and night. Or being locked in a cell alone, with virtually no human contact. Being disconnected from family and friends, whom you see rarely, if at all. Constant thoughts of a crime committed, or the anxiety of...
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