Inmates

While most commerce within prisons revolves around food and hygiene products, a recent report found that digital sales are the "future of commissary."

• By Mia Armstrong

Inmate firefighters battle the Ferguson fire in Jerseydale, California, on July 22nd, 2018.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

The First Step Act has passed the House, but it's likely to face opposition from both sides of the aisle in the Senate.

• By Ashley Hackett

On the labor issues connected with using inmates as extremely low-paid workers in state and federal prisons.

• By Beth Schwartzapfel

Este artículo explica los problemas laborales relacionados con el uso de presos como trabajadores extremadamente mal pagados en las prisiones estatales y federales.

• By Beth Schwartzapfel

A new report from the New York City Board of Correction suggests that inmates have traded one problematic practice for another.

• By Joaquin Sapien

In the small coastal town of Mendocino, California, inmates spend hours picking grapes under the sun—and many welcome the break from jail.

• By Patricia Leigh Brown

The organic grocery chain will stop selling products made by the Colorado Correctional Industries after months of customer complaints and negative media coverage.

• By Kate Wheeling

It's hard work and poorly paid, but at least it's a little more visible.

• By Francie Diep

A new report counts the costs that women, children, and families bear when a loved one gets incarcerated.

• By Francie Diep

Movies and television don't do an adequate job capturing the day-to-day loneliness and the feelings of exclusion and shame.

• By Trevor

New research suggests that maintaining methadone treatment in jails and prisons would save lives.

• By Lauren Kirchner

They'll stay out of trouble longer, a new study suggests.

• By Nathan Collins

If we’re going to kill people, there's only one good way to do it.

• By Vince Beiser