Surviving MACA: Life Inside Côte d’Ivoire’s Toughest Prison | Free Documentary

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Surviving MACA: Life Inside Côte d’Ivoire’s Toughest Prison | Free Documentary


Surviving MACA: Life Inside Côte d’Ivoire’s Toughest Prison | Free Documentary

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Relegated to the outskirts between the working-class district of Yopougon and the Banco rainforest, the Abidjan Prison and Correctional Facility (MACA) lies hidden from…

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  1. Relegated to the outskirts of Abidjan, between the working-class district of Yopougon and the Banco rainforest, the Abidjan Prison and Correctional Facility (MACA) lies hidden from view, in the shadows of the Ivorian capital. Built following a European model in the 1970s, this penitentiary institution, the largest in Côte d'Ivoire, houses up to 5,000 inmates, despite an original capacity of 1,500. Yet, daily life is organized, and a certain stability prevails within MACA.

    Through portraits of guards and inmates from different sections of the prison, this documentary offers the first filmed immersion into the heart of this system of conflicting solidarities.

  2. This one looks like one of those ghetto towns. Everything is available nd too much freedom. Its so surprising to learn that prisoners have to pay for things like rentals , fixing electrical issues. Such things have to be taken care of by the government, prisoners also have rights to have such for free

  3. this really feels sort of like "the city" plus stricter rules/order minus Freedom…
    which I guess a functioning prison sort of should be like.
    *(in a part of the world, prisons add an extra level of harshness & torture beyond that)
    indeed, at least according to what we see, there is nothing that would be purposeful cruelty towards the inmates, and, considering the kind of world they came from on the outside, this really doesn't seem like overly harsh conditions, or something the people their cannot adapt to without serious internal breakdown (which is one of the factors which often makes a prison system into a form of torture)… here space & personal freedom is far greater than that found in the penitentiary system of many relatively richer or nominally more developed countries.

  4. Prison or not you have to at least be able to feed people more than once a day smh…most of them are in there for not giving cops bribe money, or not paying back $5 they borrowed from someone ten years ago dumb reasons anyway they do house horrible people but most are just victims…very corrupt place

  5. I see televisions in this prison and prisoners walking around with headphones….NOT IN KENYA….Here, you are liable to be clubbed to death on the first day by a psychopath correctional officer.