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Imprisonment

Injustice Delayed

"The overall impression I came away with from the court decision was that Jarvis Jay Masters was considered a low-grade person who only deserved a low-grade trial. It’s certainly what he got."

Bird in a Cage

by Rebecca Solnit,

There are two things I think about nearly every time I row out into San Francisco Bay. One is a passage from Shankar Vedantam’s The Hidden Brain, in which he…

The Ultimate Terrorist Factory

by Scott Sayare,

Are French prisons incubating extremism?

Captive Markets

by Michael Ames,

Why we won’t get prison reform

Displaced in the D.R.

by Rachel Nolan,

A country strips 210,000 of citizenship

Life After Guantánamo

by Pardiss Kebriaei,

A father and son’s story

Captive Market

by Michael Ames,

Why we won’t get prison reform

Christmas in Prison

by Kenneth E. Hartman,

Greeting the holidays in an age of mass incarceration

Return of the Strongman

by Negar Azimi,

How did Egypt revert to dictatorship?

A Fan’s Note

by Njong Emmanuel Tohnain,

From a letter dated June 15, 2012, discovered in a Saks Fifth Avenue shopping bag by a customer. This year, a man claiming to be the author was identified by…

Northern Exposure

by Masha Gessen,

Protest, petroleum, and Putin’s dream of a Russian Arctic