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Presidio Modelo - Prison Art 2 - Cuba

Many people know about Cuba, but what many may not know is that there is another island called Isla de la Juventud, or Island of the Youth, which sits 30 miles south off the mainland island but is still very much part of Cuba. Presidio Modelo is a large prison that was built in the 1920s on this island by then President Gerardo Machado. Fidel Castro was once imprisoned here for his part on the raid of the Batista's Moncada army barracks on July 26, 1953. The prison's architectural form is known as Panopticon Style. Many of these prisoners were sentenced to a lifetime of hard labor. I gradually took greater notice of random things written and drawn on these eerie looking 10'-by-6' empty prison cell walls. Many of the writings and drawings were worn, faded and faint while others were more visible. At first, I assumed it was some vandalism or graffiti since this prison was shut down and left abandoned in 1967. Isla de la Juventud is difficult to get to because of its isolation from the mainland, and does not get visited much. The prison has been left in a long and forgotten state and has been deteriorating over the years. I somberly began to realize that these drawings were left by the prisoners themselves. I was viewing some of the last remaining prison art on these crumbling and deteriorating prison walls. These drawings served as a way for the mind to escape, to hold on to one's last bit of sanity, and for the prisoners to find some sense of comfort and peace. Drawn over the decades, this art tells the prisoners' stories. Some of the last remaining art left on these crumbling and deteriorating prison walls, left by the prisoners themselves.