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SURPRISING ENCOUNTERS
Get a sense of what prisons in Nepal look and feel like from the perspective of the authors
We were told we’d never be sitting here. We were told that even if we did sit here, on this posh couch shared with two ex-prisoners, in this uncomfortably large office, that we wouldn’t get what we came for. Sitting in the Director General’s office in the Department of Prison Management, we weren’t offered tea until my nervous sweat had inched its way down the entire distance of my spine...
LIFE IN PRISON
MENTAL HEALTH
"Long sentences will make your mind crack..."
It is clear to us that mental health is a health concern faced by many if not all prisoners in some form. Despite this, it unfortunately appears as though there are not sufficient resources to aid prisoners in managing such things, no matter the severity.
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