9 Best Articles in 2022
Mother Jones
My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard: A Mother Jones Investigation
Mother Jones
From 2016 · This is the biggest investigation we’ve ever published.
Reader View · Shared by 108, including Alexandre Haederli, Ryan Boren, Helmi, Aleksandra Wisniewska, Florian Hanke 🍎, Ibrahim Nergiz, Charlie O'Keefe, JokeJokeCry, Mathew Ingram, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, APKYP
niagara-gazette.com
At New York prison, Harvey Weinstein put in isolation after contracting virus
niagara-gazette.com
3 min read · From 2020 · ALBANY — Oscar-winning movie producer Harvey Weinstein, now one of New York's most notorious prison inmates after being sentenced for sexual assault, has tested positive for the COVID-19 virus,…
Reader View · Shared by 43, including Dr. Jeffrey Guterman, Steve Silberman, Kara Swisher, Pete Skomoroch
themarshallproject.org
Rethinking Prison Tourism
themarshallproject.org
8 min read · Jun 11th · Many former prison sites draw on the spooky and salacious to entertain visitors. But some are having second thoughts.
Reader View · Shared by 140, including Emily Thomas, Clint Smith
Rest of World
How cellphones transformed life in a women’s prison in Argentina
Rest of World
6 min read · May 3rd · A temporary measure at the start of the pandemic has become permanent in Argentina, making life easier for both inmates and guards.
Reader View · Shared by 100, including Tactical Tech
Electric Literature
A Handbook for Creating a Literary Life in Prison
Electric Literature
8 min read · Apr 12th · Caits Meissner, editor of "The Sentences That Create Us," on how the literary community can support prison abolition
Reader View · Shared by 108, including Simon C
Esquire
The Ballad of Ron and Dorinda: A Prison-Break Love Story
Esquire
20+ min read · 2020-12-08 · In 1986, two lovebirds busted out of a coed prison in a hijacked helicopter. They’ve been trying to escape ever since.
Reader View · Shared by 98, including Mathew Ingram
themarshallproject.org
The Rise and Fall of a Prison Town Queen
themarshallproject.org
~18 min read · Feb 11th · A family feud over drugs, money and fried fish roils the heart of the Texas prison system.
Reader View · Shared by 94, including Digg
The New York Times
Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind
The New York Times
20+ min read · From 2019 · In three decades of advocating for prison abolition, the activist and scholar has helped transform how people think about criminal justice.
Reader View · Shared by 76, including Elliott M. Hoey, Joi Ito, 🏴 Eithiriel DeMeré, Clint Smith, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Nadia Kamil, Tom Connor, Bjorn Larsen, Ian Schlakman
Protean Magazine
The American Prison System’s War on Reading
Protean Magazine
9 min read · 2021-11-30 · Alex Skopic reports on widespread attempts to ban books and shrink U.S. prison libraries. The carceral system is aiming to both further immiserate prisoners and set up corporations like Barnes & Noble…
Reader View · Shared by 72, including Steve Portigal 🇨🇦🇺🇸, Esther Schindler
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themarshallproject.org
Rethinking Prison Tourism
themarshallproject.org
8 min read · Jun 11th · Many former prison sites draw on the spooky and salacious to entertain visitors. But some are having second thoughts.
Reader View · Shared by 140, including Emily Thomas, Clint Smith
Rest of World
How cellphones transformed life in a women’s prison in Argentina
Rest of World
6 min read · May 3rd · A temporary measure at the start of the pandemic has become permanent in Argentina, making life easier for both inmates and guards.
Reader View · Shared by 100, including Tactical Tech
theappeal.org
How I Helped Fight Vaccine Misinformation While in Prison
theappeal.org
6 min read · May 4th · One incarcerated author used skills from an HIV/AIDS group to push imprisoned people and prison guards to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Reader View · Shared by 58
Los Angeles Times
As El Salvador’s president tries to silence free press, journalist brothers expose his ties to street gangs
Los Angeles Times
10 min read · Jun 9th · Journalists in El Salvador who write about gangs can now be sent to prison. Two brothers defy the law with a story tying President Nayib Bukele to violent street gangs.
Reader View · Shared by 89, including your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐍👑 🌷, Deborah Blum, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Christopher Knight, Steve Hanke
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From 2016 · In this thought-provoking documentary, scholars, activists and politicians analyze the criminalization of African Americans and the U.S. prison boom.
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Protean Magazine
The American Prison System’s War on Reading
Protean Magazine
9 min read · 2021-11-30 · Alex Skopic reports on widespread attempts to ban books and shrink U.S. prison libraries. The carceral system is aiming to both further immiserate prisoners and set up corporations like Barnes & Noble…
Reader View · Shared by 72, including Steve Portigal 🇨🇦🇺🇸, Esther Schindler
The Mirror
Tiger King star Joe Exotic hospitalised after contracting coronavirus in prison
The Mirror
3 min read · From 2020 · Netflix's Tiger King star Joe Exotic has contracted coronavirus in his Texas prison, days after his husband revealed he was self-isolating
Reader View · Shared by 65, including Jake Jackson, William Gibson, Ashoka Mukpo, Thomas Power
theappeal.org
How I Helped Fight Vaccine Misinformation While in Prison
theappeal.org
6 min read · May 4th · One incarcerated author used skills from an HIV/AIDS group to push imprisoned people and prison guards to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Reader View · Shared by 58
Vox
The Stanford Prison Experiment was massively influential. We just learned it was a fraud.
Vox
9 min read · From 2018 · The most famous psychological studies are often wrong, fraudulent, or outdated. Textbooks need to catch up.
Reader View · Shared by 250, including Ron McIntyre, Alf Rehn, Turner Burns, Gabriele, Clemens M. Schusterwwaq, 𝔼𝕣𝕚𝕜 ℍ𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕞𝕒𝕟 ☕🐈💻, Dominik Grolimund, Matthias Lampe, Thomas Power, Anita Leirfall, Mathew Ingram, Patricia Churchland, tjalve, Michael Seemann, Tris Hussey, A thinking meat, Cory Doctorow, Javi Cantón, Bjorn Larsen, Merkstatt
Los Angeles Times
Electronics-recycling innovator is going to prison for trying to extend computers' lives
Los Angeles Times
7 min read · From 2018 · A California man who built a business out of recycling electronic waste is headed to prison for 15 months after a federal appeals court rejected his claim that the “restore discs” he made to extend computers’ lives had no financial value, instead ruling that he'd infringed Microsoft products.
Reader View · Shared by 45, including Ron McIntyre, Patric Fornasier, Thomas Power, Tom Connor, Florian Hanke 🍎, ἀποκαραδοκία
JSTOR Daily
Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus
JSTOR Daily
5 min read · From 2020 · How can we help students understand George Floyd's death in the context of institutionalized racism?
Reader View · Shared by 290, including Stéphanie Walter, Ayala Sherbow, Jeff Heuer, Kevin M. Kruse, Guernica Magazine, Shanna Peeples she/her 🏳️🌈, Dov Nelkin 🗻, Andrew Ermogenous, Fabian Pfortmüller, Jeff Jarvis, Priya Parker, Felix M
The New York Times
From Prison to Ph.D.: The Redemption and Rejection of Michelle Jones
The New York Times
10 min read · From 2017 · During 20 years behind bars, a woman develops a passion and talent for history. But her background was too hot for Harvard.
Reader View · Shared by 37, including Felix M, Mark Kaigwa
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13th (Entire Documentary on YouTube)
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From 2020 · Combining archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars, director Ava DuVernay's examination of the U.S. prison system looks at how the country...
Shared by 128, including Josh Wolfe, Ben Jones, Amy Jo Kim, Alex B., XXL Magazine, Dan Shaw, Gustaf Alströmer 🇺🇦, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Sandy Darity, Retweets do not mean endorsement., Chris Heilmann, ᴄʟᴀᴜᴅɪᴏ sᴄʜᴡᴀʀᴢ, Data Science Renee, danielle 🥽, Ben Schwartz, Ryan Carson
