"An hour in joy, prisoners": where prisoners ' dates take place

Even in high-security prisons, prisoners are allowed to see their relatives. Their faithful "zhduli" come for short-term dates or for long ones that last up to several days. Depending on the conditions of the prison and the financing, "meeting rooms" are different, some are comfortable, and some are completely unsightly. Let's see what these rooms look like in prisons in different countries.

Visiting room for prisoners in France

Meeting room on the zone in Mordovia

Pete Brook photographed the couple's dating rooms in Romania

The photographer visited 40 prisons in Romania, and as a result, a photo project called Intimate Room ("Intimate Room")turned out

In many American prisons, visitors now communicate with prisoners via video link. Video calls from home are also possible, but their cost is $ 1.5 per minute, while the usual price of a telephone conversation is about 10 cents per minute.

Meeting room with a lawyer at Guantanamo Bay

Women's correctional colony in Atyrau, Kazakhstan.

Meeting Room at Cork Prison, Ireland

A meeting room in the colony of Melitopol, Ukraine.

In the state of Texas

A family meeting room in one of the new prisons in Britain

A meeting room for juvenile delinquents at the Stewart Detention Center, a private prison in Georgia

This is what a meeting room for lifelong prisoners with their families looks like in the Kiev pre-trial detention center

A prison in Cleveland, Ohio

A date in the pre-trial detention center. Kirovgrad educational colony, Russia.

Sverdlovsk

A conference room for guests and prisoners in the Yancheng VIP Prison in China.

Relatives meet with convicts in Uruguay in an exemplary prison, which is more like a village

Prison in Iraq

A room for long family dates in the Finnish city of Kuopio

A short-term meeting room at the North Carolina State Prison

A room for meetings and communication in Halden prison, Norway.