News in Brief When Parents Go to Prison, Their Kids Pay the Price There has been very little research into the effects of throwing the parents of more than a million children into prison. John Upton
Social Justice What Does Religion Look Like in Prison? Ex-Catholics, atheists, Cherokees, Lakotas, Lutherans, and Wiccans all make an appearance in Joshua Dubler's Down in the Chapel. Casey N. Cep
News in Brief All the Study Subjects Have Gone to Prison Studies on health disparities are being confounded by yet another disparity: the disproportionate incarceration of black men. Ryan Jacobs
News in Brief The Value of Taping Interrogations A report advocating death penalty reforms finds that false confessions in capital cases can be limited by recording the questioning of suspects. Joaquin Sapien
News in Brief 3 Problems With Obama’s New Clemency Initiative Prisoners’ advocates call the reforms a step forward, but they don’t address discrimination in presidential pardons or apply to everyone serving harsh sentences from outdated guidelines. Kara Brandeisky
Social Justice A Growing Number of Americans: Drug Abuse Is a Health Issue, Not a Crime Other countries, like Canada and Switzerland, have shown how the shifting opinion can result in action. Paul Hiebert
News in Brief 16 Months in the Hole: Lessons From Solitary Confinement A reformed drug dealer on the prisons of North Carolina. Ted Scheinman
Environment The Peacemaker Did a popular young political leader plot to commit mass murder in Alaska? Eva Holland
News in Brief Radical Life Extension and Time-Slowing Drugs These ideas for the future of prison sentencing are outrageous, but the current state of affairs is, too. Lauren Kirchner
Education Are Prison Education Programs Worth It? Cost-benefit analyses should consider more than dollars and cents. Lauren Kirchner