As blockbuster rapper T.I. heads for prison, his reality series prompts the nagging question: Can you really scare kids straight?
By Baz Dreisinger Mar 31, 2009
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New York becomes the fourth state to ban an inhumane practice
By Abigail Kramer
May 28, 2009
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It has long been clear that the CIA used the Szymany military airbase in Poland for extraordinary renditions. Now there is new evidence of a secret torture prison nearby.
By John Goetz and Britta Sandberg
April 28, 2009
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British artist Steve McQueen's devastating film "Hunger" captures the filthy, excruciating details of IRA prisoner Bobby Sands' legendary hunger strike.
By Andrew O'Hehir
March 18, 2009
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At California's green bleeding edge: Solar powered penitentiaries
By Andrew Leonard
May 28, 2008
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New York finally overturns the egregious laws that left minor offenders like Elaine Bartlett in prison for 16 years.
By Abigail Kramer
April 6, 2009
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A disturbing look at the growing number of geriatric women in prison.
By Abigail Kramer
February 13, 2009
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In this podcast interview from Cannes, the British artist turned filmmaker talks about Bobby Sands, Abu Ghraib and his sensational feature debut, "Hunger."
By Andrew O'Hehir
May 24, 2008
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Buddhism without parole, in Alabama's darkest prison. Plus: Hot housewife seeks Asian stud, physics geek goes nutzoid and more.
By Andrew O'Hehir
April 11, 2008
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Mexico City lets incarcerated women keep their children until the age of 6. Nice thought, but sounds a little wacko to us.
By Carol Lloyd
February 7, 2008
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Now on trial: Brazil's criminal justice system
By Lynn Harris
December 12, 2007
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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
August 23, 2007
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Are kids with pending immigration cases being treated as prisoners?
By Carol Lloyd
May 3, 2007
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After a nightmare flight from New York to London, I was thrown into a Victorian hellhole of a prison alongside drug smugglers and rapists. This is my story.
By Peter Kurth
May 1, 2007
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Moving away from the purportedly gender-neutral "an inmate is an inmate, so all inmates wear men's shoes" school of correctional management.
By Adrienne So
October 2, 2006
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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
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A crusading journalist with a bipolar son says jails have become warehouses for the mad -- and argues for forced commitment.
By Marissa Kantor
April 11, 2006
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Prisons often force female inmates to remain shackled while in labor.
By Sarah Goldstein
March 2, 2006
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The testimony of one bogus witness put Larry Fowlkes away on murder charges for 45 years. Will presidential hopeful Gov. Mark Warner set him free?
By Alan Berlow
December 9, 2005
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A new book says the 2.4 million children who have parents behind bars are the real victims of America's prison boom.
By Sarah Karnasiewicz
November 15, 2005
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Why is it so hard for politicians to understand that kids in juvenile detention need treatment not punishment?
By Ayelet Waldman
November 14, 2005
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Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski -- former commander at Abu Ghraib -- says she was hung out to dry by the Pentagon.
By Jen Banbury
November 10, 2005
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Joe Loya has a successful career as a journalist and performer in San Francisco, but in his new memoir, he comes clean about his first career path -- robbing banks.
By Sheerly Avni
August 25, 2004
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California prison officials don't want felons to have anything at all to do with the Internet -- not even a printout of a Web site.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
July 10, 2003
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The success of a California measure that offers drug offenders treatment before prison points a way out of the drug-war stalemate.
By Nell Bernstein
June 26, 2003
Crime, punishment ... and MTV
Unshackling female prisoners in labor
New evidence of a secret torture prison
How to starve yourself to death
Let the (prison) sunshine in
Meet the film world's new Steve McQueen
Deadly lockdown in New Orleans
At her majesty's pleasure
Bitter pills
Our crazy mental health system
The politics of injustice
Love under lock and key
Their misspent youth
Rummy's scapegoat
Confessions of a dangerous mind
Life, without possibility of e-mail
The war off drugs
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