Prisons in Africa: Experiences, Models, and Flows

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Marie Morelle, PhD
Geographer, Lecturer at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne (UMR Prodig, Ecoppaf programme). Marie Morelle's research focuses on public security and prison policies in Africa, particularly in Cameroon. She is particularly interested in the links between informality, penalty and city management, mainly in Africa and secondarily in Europe.

Christine Deslaurier, PhD
Historian, Research Fellow at the IRD of the Institute of African Worlds (IMAf), member of the Ecoppaf programme, assigned to the History Department of the University of Burundi. Christine Deslaurier's work focuses on the history of the late colonial state in the Great Lakes region, particularly in Burundi. Beyond decolonization, it addresses contemporary developments in Burundian society through a socio-history of political parties and disciplinary institutions (prison, army), modes of control and escapism of social bodies (domesticity) and processes of reconciliation and memorialization. 

Yasmine Bouagga, PhD
social sciences, research fellow at the CNRS at Triangle (UMR CNRS, ENS-Lyon, Lyon II, Sciences-PoLyon) and member of the Ecoppaf programme. Yasmine Bouagga's research focuses on the sociologyof law, criminal policy and incarceration. She has conducted investigations in France, the UnitedStates and currently in Tunisia on prison reforms.

Frédéric Le Marcis, PhD
Anthropologist, Professor of Social Anthropology at the ENS de Lyon (Triangle UMR 5206, Ecoppafprogramme). Taking as an empirical entry health issues, mainly on the African continent, hequestions through them the issues that cross contemporary societies. His work focuses on epidemics(HIV, Ebola) and health governance and care practices in prisons.