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Prison
September 18, 2019
Kim Kelly
The Climate Disaster Inside America’s Prisons
Inmates are among the most vulnerable populations on our warming planet—and among the most ignored.
August 19, 2019
Magazine
Ken Silverstein
Shock Corridor
The first inside report from an ICE mental health facility
August 12, 2019
Melissa Gira Grant
Jeffrey Epstein and the Myth of “Justice” in America
The U.S. criminal legal system protected him for years—and then it failed him, just as it has failed countless people of color who are put behind bars.
August 11, 2019
Andrew Cohen
The Completely Predictable Death of Jeffrey Epstein
If you are shocked by a jail suicide you aren’t paying attention to the grim conditions of incarceration in America.
May 30, 2018
Jacob Schuman
America’s Shadow Criminal Justice System
How the “supervised release” program pulls tens of thousands of former inmates back into prison without a fair trial
August 1, 2017
Sarah Jones
Why it’s troubling that Jeff Sessions just appointed a former general to lead civilian prisons.
August 24, 2016
David Dayen
Will America Finally Stop Privatizing Everything?
The Justice Department’s decision to shut down private prisons could signal the end of an era.
April 18, 2016
Ian Head
Another Clinton-Era Law that Needs to Be Repealed
The Prison Litigation Reform Act is still trampling on prisoners' legal rights.
February 16, 2016
Barbra Perez
A Fragile Shell of Who I Used to Be
A trans woman's harrowing experience in solitary confinement.
September 16, 2015
Erika Eichelberger
The Literal Cost of Solitary Confinement
Why are prisoners forced to pay fines when they are put in isolation?
April 1, 2015
Naomi Shavin
A Republican Governor Is Leading the Country's Most Successful Prison Reform
January 21, 2015
Janell Ross
People in Neighborhoods with High Incarceration Rates Are More Likely to Suffer from Depression and Anxiety
August 15, 2014
Josh Kovensky
It's Time to Pay Prisoners the Minimum Wage
Paying just $2 a day hurts our economy and punishes families
May 25, 2014
Richard A. Posner
We Need a Strong Prison System
But we need to imprison people for fewer crimes and for less time
November 14, 2013
The New Republic Staff
Oklahoma Incarcerates More Women Than Any Country on Earth
Yousef Khanfar's portraits of some of them
October 30, 2013
Nathaniel Penn
Should This Inmate Get a State-Financed Sex Change Operation?
What we owe a murderer
August 22, 2013
Ryan Kearney
He Is Not Bradley Manning. She Is Chelsea Manning. Deal With It.
August 12, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
The Non-Cynical Explanation for Eric Holder's Drug-Bust Switcheroo
August 12, 2013
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Julia Ioffe
An Intimate Look at Life in a Harsh Russian Gulag
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