After photographing civil servants in eight countries across five continents for his book, Bureaucratics, Jan Banning thought looking at criminal justice systems around the world seemed like a logical next step. In his new book, Law & Order: The World of Criminal Justice which will be released in the United States this fall the Dutch photographer brings readers up close to prisons “I’m interested in these aspects of society that are vital but not necessarily considered to be picturesque,” he said it’s an attempt to visually cope with the question of how we handle crime I think it always makes tremendous sense to compare different societies as I’ve done with Bureaucratics because the character of a specific society comes out.” After discussing which countries to focus on with the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law Banning started his investigation with a trip to Uganda in 2010 he was given access to a handful of prisons and on subsequent visits he was able to visit 10 prisons of various security levels his guide tended to be just a single unarmed warden or assistant which was indicative of environments he found to be “rather friendly and rather humane.” maybe this is a PR exercise and they’re just doing this for me.’ But I noticed it in all 10 prisons I was in and some were tiny local prisons where you wouldn’t expect the personnel to have any idea of PR the prisons there are still not a place where you’d love to be half the prison population hasn’t been on trial and some have been sitting there without charges for five or six years.” Uganda’s open system allowed him to get some of the more colorful photographs in the book tended to be a lot less visually interesting than those in Uganda but Banning said he embraced the sterility in his photographs and thought it was important to communicate it in “a fair and relevant way.” “I think this debate is incredibly important in the U.S but I think the way crime is handled here in Europe is not as exaggerated as it is in the U.S and the number of people involved in the U.S promised Banning access to several prisons with “some limitations,” he said his experience there was frustrating as the agency tried to turn him into “an unpaid propagandist” by not allowing him to photograph cells in high-security prisons and limiting his views largely to amenities such as gardens and education centers he stormed out of one tour through a women’s prison and ended his relationship with INPEC “In the other countries dealt with in this book – France – I was able to produce a more or less fair and balanced series of photos I have to clearly admit that I have fallen victim to INPEC’s censorship,” he wrote in Law & Order after years seeing vastly different prisons and criminal justice systems was a skepticism about the effectiveness of prisons in handling criminals “You see lots and lots of people more or less rotting away and some manage to turn their prison time into something sensible but for a lot of them they’re just sitting there and I don’t think it makes much sense for them “Not that I’m so arrogant as to say I know what the solution is But I hope this book contributes to people thinking about it,” he added Banning will mark the U.S. release of Law & Order with an event with photo editor and curator Elisabeth Biondi at the Bronx Documentary Center on Sept. 20 at 7p.m. You don't have permission to access the page you requested. What is this page?The website you are visiting is protected.For security reasons this page cannot be displayed. The poignant final entry from the diary of a First World War flying ace has been released by his relatives on the 100th anniversary of his death. Captain Albert Ball VC is known as Britain's first celebrity fighter pilot and built up an impressive 44 confirmed enemy kills in just one year. His relatives have now released extracts from his war diaries after they were discovered in a dusty box. The final entry, which was written on May 7, 1917, shows how the fighter pilot had tended to his airfield garden before taking to the skies: "Gardening in morning. Patrol at night. Combat with four Albatros Scouts. Got one of them down." Just hours later, Captain Ball was killed during a ferocious battle over the northern French town of Annoeullin. After his death, the diaries were returned to his grieving parents Albert and Harriet in the UK. They were then first passed to his younger brother Cyril and his wife Marie, and again to their daughter Mrs Paddy Armstrong. The diaries are now in the hands of Captain Ball's great-niece Vanda Day, 58, who lives in Hose, Leicestershire. The hero's great-niece said reading the diaries had been a "fascinating, time-consuming experience": "In one respect I feel a little uncomfortable reading them because they are his private thoughts and feelings, but on the other hand 100 years has passed and it is a good time to get to know more about him." She added that the war hero's optimism, enthusiasm and love of life shines through in the entries. Captain Ball was only 20 when he died, crashing after a dogfight as he led 56 Squadron against the Jagdstaffel of Germany's most successful air ace. He was buried in Annoeullin by the Germans with full military honours. He was also the first man in the war to be awarded three Distinguished Service Orders and a posthumous Victoria Cross. The Royal Flying Corps hero was described by Manfred von Richthofen, the infamous Red Baron, as "by far the best English flying man". He was popular with the public because of his 'lone wolf' style of combat, flying by stalking enemies from below. But his great-niece believes a different picture emerges when you flick through pages of his wartime diaries. "He wasn't the loner everyone supposes. He was very sociable but he did need time on his own to keep sane." According to Mrs Day, being a pilot for him was 'just a job' and he 'hated killing': "He had to get in the zone of being able to cope with it which is why he had his garden, his peace time to get his head round things and be able to switch off." Mrs Day now plans to give the diaries to a museum to keep the memory of her famous relative alive: "We want to make sure they go to the most appropriate museum and be made available for people to do research on." 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