Viewfinder: Protesters in Germany Push for a Jailed Journalist’s Freedom
Supporters of German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yücel demonstrate with heart-shaped balloons during a motorcade protest on February 14th, 2018, in Berlin, Germany.
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Viewfinder: Prison Guards Protest in France to Demand More Security
A pile of tires burns as prison officers demonstrate in front of Villefranche-sur-Saône prison in Lyon, France, on January 15th, 2018.
The Troubling Practice of Turning Semi-Trailers Into Jails
Facing a shortage of space for inmates, Missouri's Greene County Jail opted to build an insta-prison in the parking lot. Is that OK?
Jail Is Corrosive to a Young Man’s Mind
But a tailored mindfulness program may negate the negative impact of imprisonment.
The Criminal-Justice Data Behind Meek Mill’s Latest Prison Sentence
The rapper's experience with probation is far from unusual for ex-prisoners.
‘Locking Up Our Own’ and the Roots of the Mass Incarceration of Black America
James Forman Jr.'s first book chronicles with compassion how the actions of black leaders sometimes hurt the very people they sought to save.
PS Picks: Exploring Mass Incarceration as a Societal Problem in ‘The Prison in Twelve Landscape’
PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.
America’s Private-Prison Industry Has Always Been All Right
President Donald Trump has restored consumer confidence in private prisons—but they were never in danger of failing to begin with.
Whistleblower Chelsea Manning Released From Prison
Manning had been serving a 35-year-sentence, the longest ever imposed for whistleblowing.
Abolition in the Now
A new campaign rooted in the South is getting mothers in prisons and jails across the country home for Mother’s Day.