9 Best Articles in 2021
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.
niagara-gazette.com
At New York prison, Harvey Weinstein put in isolation after contracting virus
niagara-gazette.com
3 min read · 2020-03-22 · 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,…
The Verge
Inmates in Finland are training AI as part of prison labor
The Verge
4 min read · From 2019 · Empowerment or exploitation?
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.
themarshallproject.org
Reimagining Prison with Frank Gehry
themarshallproject.org
4 min read · From 2017 · Prison as college campus. Prison as wellness center. Prison as monastery.
m.signalvnoise.com
The presence prison
m.signalvnoise.com
4 min read · From 2017 · Are you chained to the green dot? Turn it off and break free.
netflix.com
Watch 13TH Online
netflix.com
From 2016 · In this thought-provoking documentary, scholars, activists and politicians analyze the criminalization of African Americans and the U.S. prison boom.
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.
The Mirror
Tiger King star Joe Exotic hospitalised after contracting coronavirus in prison
The Mirror
3 min read · 2020-04-02 · Netflix's Tiger King star Joe Exotic has contracted coronavirus in his Texas prison, days after his husband revealed he was self-isolating
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The New York Times
Incarcerated and Infected: How the Virus Tore Through the U.S. Prison System
The New York Times
~15 min read · Apr 10th · Since March 2020, New York Times reporters have tracked every known coronavirus case in every correctional setting in the nation. More than 2,700 inmates have died.
The New York Times
Hong Kong Court Sentences Pro-Democracy Leaders to Prison
The New York Times
6 min read · Apr 16th · Prison sentences for prominent pro-democracy leaders over unauthorized peaceful protest point to what critics say is the shrinking space for dissent in Hong Kong.
The Washington Post
Opinion | The Kremlin may be slowly killing Alexei Navalny in prison. The world must not let…
The Washington Post
Mar 30th · The grim list of Putin's victims should not be allowed to grow.
The New York Times
Opinion | A 4-Year-Old Child Is Not a Problem. And Expulsion Is Not a Solution.
The New York Times
5 min read · Apr 26th · There is an effective approach to breaking the preschool-to-prison pipeline.
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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.
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.
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.
The New York Times
How China Turned a City Into a Prison
The New York Times
3 min read · From 2019 · Children are interrogated. Neighbors become informants. Mosques are monitored. Cameras are everywhere.
The New Yorker
Inside Xinjiang’s Prison State
The New Yorker
5 min read · Feb 26th · Survivors detail the scope of China’s campaign of persecution against ethnic and religious minorities.
The New York Times
Leaving Prison at 72
The New York Times
6 min read · 2019-10-28 · For nearly two decades, Geneva Cooley assumed she would die in prison for nonviolent drug crimes. And then a judge reduced her sentence and changed her fate.
HuffPost
Michael Bloomberg Confirms He Used Prison Labor To Make 2020 Campaign Calls
HuffPost
1 min read · 2019-12-25 · After a report revealed his campaign exploited prison laborers to make calls on his behalf, Bloomberg said he's no longer working with the company that h...
Vox
The case for capping all prison sentences at 20 years
Vox
~14 min read · From 2019 · America’s prison sentences are far too long. It’s time to do something about it.
The New Yorker
Punishment by Pandemic
The New Yorker
5 min read · 2020-06-15 · In a penitentiary with one of the U.S.’s largest coronavirus outbreaks, prison terms become death sentences.
