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Time Wasting

by Oleg Sentsov,Translated by Kate Tsurkan, Daisy Gibbons,

From Chronicle of a Hunger Striker, which is forthcoming from Deep Vellum. Sentsov was arrested in 2014 for protesting the Russian annexation of his native Crimea, and spent five years…

Soul Proprietor

by Daniel Genis,

From Sentence, a memoir, which will be published next month by Viking. The entire time I was in prison, I owned a typewriter, and it was on this typewriter that…

Life after Life

by Kenneth E. Hartman,

Why parole in America is just another prison

Power of Attorney

by Andrew Cockburn,

Can progressive prosecutors achieve meaningful criminal-justice reform?

Cold as ICE

by Oscar Wilde,

From a letter written in 1897 to the editor of the British newspaper the Daily Chronicle. The letter is included in The Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde, published in…

Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness

by Harper’s Magazine,

Unfit for trial: a discussion of Alisa Roth’s book Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness

Pushing the Limit

by Alexandra Starr,

What the U.S. Olympic Committee can — and can’t — do about sexual abuse

Silver Linings Daybook

by Arsenii Formakov,

From letters sent by Arsenii Formakov to his family, in Riga. Formakov was a Latvian poet, novelist, and journalist. In 1940, he was arrested for anti-Soviet activities and sentenced to…

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by Lincoln Agnew,

Christmas in Prison

by Kenneth E. Hartman,

Greeting the holidays in an age of mass incarceration

Innocents

by Rachel Nolan,

Where pregnant women have more to fear than Zika