In this episode of Justice Atlas podcast series, we will be talking about governmental power of confinement together with artist Fatoş İrwen, political scientist Arda İbikoğlu and sociologist Yonca Güneş Yücel. The episode titled, “Altered Modes of Confinement” opens with the actor Cihat Süvarioğlu, vocalising the memoirs of a prisoner in Silivri Prison. Transformation of prisons from the Ottoman period to the present day and the new forms of confinement that go beyond the boundaries of traditional spaces will be discussed by the guests.
 
In the episode where the guards are taken up as the perpetrators of the confinement, the possibilities created by prisoners and convicts through productions in different areas of art will be talked about, focusing on the writings of İlhan Sami Çomak, who has been kept in prison for 28 years. Actor Settar Tanrıöğen cites several excerpts from Çomak’s book “Karınca Yuvasını Dağıtmamak (Not Destroying the Ant Nest)” published by İletişim Publishing. Questions that are sought to be answered in the episode include:
 
Why does the model of prison still exist even though it is proven to be a failure? How does the state that became estranged to the notion of reformation, approach the concept of prison sentence? What kind of a person strives for being a guard today? How does the changing of staff profile affect the guardians’ perception of innocence and guilt? In which ways do prisoners and convicts resist to confinement? How does contemporary art create a fracture in the silence of literature and cinema towards confinement? What is going on in the women’s ward of Diyarbakır Prison?