Prisoners and prisons Archives

Prisoners and prisons

All Work and No Pay

From interviews conducted with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated laborers by employees of the American Civil Liberties Union and professors and students at the University of Chicago Law School. field labor…

They Dance Cheek to Cheek

by Kenneth E. Hartman ,

A contemplation of my parents’ marriage

Time After Time

by Brian Nelson ,

From Six by Ten, a collection of firsthand accounts of solitary confinement edited by Mateo Hoke and Taylor Pendergrass. This story is by Brian Nelson, who was convicted of murder…

Life After Guantánamo

by Pardiss Kebriaei ,

A father and son’s story

The Forever Ward

by Harper’s Staff ,

From cables sent by U.S. diplomats regarding the transfer of Guantánamo prisoners, among the 250,000 documents WikiLeaks began releasing last November. Despite a 2009 executive order signed by President Barack…

The Intelligence Factory

by Petra Bartosiewicz ,

How America makes its enemies disappear

The Monk of Abu Ghraib

by Joshua Eric Casteel ,

Teen Beat

From a February 2003 video recording of an interrogation by Canadian officials of Omar Khadr, a Canadian national accused of killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan and currently held at…

Inhuman Resources

From the minutes of a Counter Resistance Strategy Meeting, held October 2, 2002, at Guantánamo Bay. The minutes, which paraphrase comments and questions from the meeting, were released June 17…

You have to see this

by Harper’s Staff ,

Extraordinary rendition

by Khaled El-Masri ,