Prisons

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  • The war off drugs

    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

  • The drug war's littlest victims

    Measures to put drug abusers in rehab instead of jail could rescue their kids from the cycle of addiction, foster care and crime.
    By Nell Bernstein October 30, 2002

  • "Hang in there, sweetie. I'll be home in 18 years"

    As a father behind bars, my role is to listen to my daughter's life.
    By Stephen Reid July 18, 2002

  • Message in a pink vibrator

    In prison, on an island, the beach is a source of treasure, faint hope and news from the outside.
    By Stephen Reid February 11, 2002

  • The men behind the curtain

    Three actors from "Oz" talk about surviving the slammer, prison politics and the brutish force of the most overlooked show on television.
    By Ian Rothkerch January 15, 2002

  • Crystal is the customary gift. I got dog drool

    My husband and I celebrated our 15th wedding anniversary in prison, along with our 12-year-old daughter.
    By Susan Musgrave October 25, 2001

  • Detention convention

    At the 131st Congress of Correction, the incarceration industry puts on a bizarre show. From execution jokes to soap -- without a rope -- it's a great place for networking.
    By Sara Kelly August 27, 2001

  • Psycho factories

    Nonviolent criminals go in and sadistic thugs come out, but with military spending down, America's small towns are hooked on prisons.
    By Maria Russo March 29, 2001

  • The elephant on the dais

    President Bush did nothing to address the rancor that surrounded his Inauguration.
    By Arianna Huffington January 24, 2001

  • The jail from hell

    If you ever go to Memphis, you better walk right. A chilling report on one of the worst places in America.
    By Ashley Fantz January 23, 2001

  • In prison again

    I am the son of inmate 83A6158.
    By Chesa Boudin January 18, 2001

  • Hardest hit by the prison craze

    Oklahoma executes black woman Wanda Jean Allen at a time when black women have become the new menace to society.
    By Earl Ofari Hutchinson January 12, 2001

  • Tulia's witch trials

    A drug sting case in a small Texas town shows how drug war paranoia can feed the fires of injustice.
    By Arianna Huffington October 11, 2000

  • Nelson Mandela

    Long Walk to Freedom
    By Biography | TimeWarner Audio October 5, 2000

  • Disenfranchised

    Young black men get singled out among drug offenders for the harshest punishment, then they lose their right to vote. With laws like this, who needs Jim Crow?
    By Arianna Huffington October 2, 2000

  • Doubt on death row

    Despite a partisan tie vote, Tennessee convict Philip Workman faces execution, while the country faces new facts about the death penalty.
    By Ashley Fantz September 14, 2000

  • Horsing around

    A man is sentenced to four years in prison for sexually assaulting mares.
    By Jack Boulware August 29, 2000

  • Prison politics

    Under Gov. George W. Bush, Texas has the largest -- and fastest growing -- incarcerated population in America.
    By Bruce Shapiro August 29, 2000

  • No more lies

    Americans see clearly that the war on drugs isn't working. Now some of our leaders are starting to open their eyes.
    By Arianna Huffington August 10, 2000

  • Hard time for soft crimes

    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

  • Swept away

    Thousands of women, often guilty of little more than lousy judgment, are serving long prison sentences as drug "conspirators."
    By Nell Bernstein July 20, 2000

  • "Too Much Time"

    Prize-winning photojournalist Jane Evelyn Atwood chronicles the lives of women behind bars.
    By July 20, 2000

  • Jailhouse Net

    Inmates with e-mail? It could happen at some state prisons experimenting with technology behind bars.
    By Damien Cave July 13, 2000

  • "A policeman had to pry me away from him"

    As far as the law is concerned, once your dad is in prison, he's not your dad anymore.
    By Nell Bernstein June 14, 2000

  • Rolling back three strikes

    In California, even some tough-on-crime politicians are beginning to fight a law that sends people to jail for life for petty theft.
    By Gary Delsohn and Sam Stanton May 9, 2000
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