Two years after Hurricane Katrina, the city's prisons are overflowing and inmates have mysteriously died behind bars. Critics denounce a justice system in tatters.
By Robin Templeton Aug 23, 2007
-
Now on trial: Brazil's criminal justice system
By Lynn Harris
December 12, 2007
-
Enraged by his city's unfair drug policies, the Newark mayor vows to stop being polite and start making a difference.
By Debra Dickerson
July 5, 2007
-
He's in and out of jail, he hardly works, and he always gets thrown out of where he's staying.
By Cary Tennis
May 30, 2007
-
Thousands of Americans buy cheap prescription drugs in Mexico. Some end up in squalid south-of-the-border prisons.
By Janelle Brown
June 1, 2006
-
Andrew O'Hehir responds to his critics.
By Andrew O'Hehir
July 13, 2005
-
As the New York Times reporter was led away, many in the courtroom feared that the real victim was a free press.
By Michael Scherer
July 7, 2005
-
The Supreme Court's refusal to hear the Cooper-Miller case will do more than hurt two reporters -- it will erode the press's ability to cover sensitive stories.
By Farhad Manjoo
June 28, 2005
-
Busted on a minor charge, I joined the luckless army of minorities who are crammed into jail cells every day by America's surreal war on marijuana.
By Christopher Ketcham
October 17, 2002
-
After a fairy-tale upbringing as the adopted daughter of Moroccan King Muhammad V, Malika Oufkir was imprisoned in desert jails for over 20 years after her father's coup against the king's heir failed.
Read by Edita Brychta
October 22, 2001
-
Whether you're in jail or at the supermarket, your image might be shown on the Net, and there's not a thing you can do about it.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
June 18, 2001
-
A man and woman conceive after having sex between cell bars.
By Jack Boulware
December 1, 2000
-
Should I tell my sons about the drugs, the drinking and the jail in Daytona?
By Callie Milton
September 27, 2000
-
Are the Philadelphia police using high bail to keep an activist leader away from the Democratic Convention?
By Anthony York
August 8, 2000
-
Two million Americans are locked up, most for nonviolent drug offenses. Some maverick Republicans -- yes, Republicans -- are trying to change that.
By Bruce Shapiro
July 31, 2000
-
While I'm planning security for the IMF demonstrations, my husband is getting thrown in jail. He better not ask me for bail.
By Lisa Guide
April 24, 2000
-
Is crime the price of apartheid? Plus: The naked body is magnificent; was the plastic bag in "American Beauty" a rip-off?
March 31, 2000
-
Kids with parents behind bars share the pain of incarceration.
By Nell Bernstein
March 29, 2000
-
Lingerie or weapon? Off with the underwire bra if you want to go behind bars.
By Linda Robertson
March 20, 2000
-
It isn't about guns; it's about neglect.
By Beth Broeker
March 13, 2000
-
Rosemeri da Costa emerges as Brazil's bare-breasted folk hero after spending eight hours in jail for slipping off her top.
By Hank Hyena
February 11, 2000
-
"Hello, I'm Johnny Cash."
By Seth Mnookin
October 22, 1999
-
And other information you don't need, but the Times of London insists on giving you.
By Douglas Cruickshank
July 1, 1999
-
Does prosecuting teenagers as adults make society safer?
By Fiona Morgan
May 26, 1999
-
By making condoms contraband, prisons may be exacerbating the AIDS health crisis.
By Dawn MacKeen
May 20, 1999
Deadly lockdown in New Orleans
Girl abused in all-male jail
Why Cory Booker is mad as hell
My brother is no good, and I've had enough!
Bitter pills
Judy Miller and the press, Part 2
Miller goes to jail
A bitter defeat for the press
Roach motel
"Stolen Lives"
Nowhere left to hide
Hard-to-swallow soup for a kid's soul
Do not pass Go
Hard time for soft crimes
Glenn Greenwald
War Room