Behind Bars: Where Inmates Meet Their Loved Ones Around the World (23 photos)
Even in maximum-security prisons, inmates are allowed visits from loved ones. Devoted partners arrive for short visits or extended stays lasting several days. Depending on funding and facility conditions, visitation rooms vary wildly—some offer relative comfort, while others are stark and dismal. Here is a look at what these spaces look like in prisons around the globe. 
A prison visitation room in France 
A visitation room at a penal colony in Mordovia, Russia 
Photographer Pete Brook documented conjugal visitation rooms in Romania 
After visiting 40 Romanian facilities, Brook compiled his work into a series titled "Intimate Room" 
Many US prisons have shifted to video calls for visits. Family members can also video chat from home, though it costs $1.50 per minute compared to standard phone rates of about 10 cents a minute. 
An attorney-client consultation room at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp 
A women's correctional facility in Atyrau, Kazakhstan 
The visiting hall at Cork Prison, Ireland 
A visitation room at a penal colony in Melitopol, Ukraine 
Inside a Texas prison facility 
A family visitation room at a modern UK prison 
A visitation space for juvenile offenders at the Stewart Detention Center, a private facility in Georgia, USA 
A family visiting room for inmates serving life sentences at a remand prison in Kyiv, Ukraine 
A correctional facility in Cleveland, Ohio 
A visitation area at the Kirovgrad Juvenile Correctional Colony, Russia 
Sverdlovsk Region, Russia 
A visitor meeting hall at the high-end Yancheng Prison in China 
Inmates meet with family members at a model prison in Uruguay designed to resemble a small village 
A prison facility in Iraq 
An extended family visitation room in Kuopio, Finland 
A short-term visitation room at a North Carolina state prison 
A visiting and common room at Halden Prison, Norway
