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Good Mother

Custody and care in the shadow of colonization

From transcripts of interviews conducted by David Stavrou with Sayragul Sauytbay, a Uighur woman from the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China, where the United Nations estimates that between one…

Innocents

by Rachel Nolan,

Where pregnant women have more to fear than Zika

Oedipus in Mississippi

by Carol Ruth Silver,

By Carol Ruth Silver, from a July 3, 1961, entry in a secret journal of her experiences at the maximum-security Mississippi State Penitentiary, in Parchman. One month earlier, the twenty-two-year-old…

To the Penal Colony

by Masha Gessen,

By Masha Gessen, from Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot, out now from Riverhead Books. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, members of the Russian punk-rock…

Dear Casey

From hundreds of letters sent to Casey Anthony, a twenty-four-year-old Florida woman arrested in 2008 on charges of murdering her two-year-old daughter, Caylee. Florida’s state attorney’s office, which released the…

Problem behavior

by Mie Lewis,

Hard labor

by Harper’s Staff,

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by Deborah Luster,

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by Deborah Luster,

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by Deborah Luster,

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Good Mother

At the Mind’s Limits

Innocents

Oedipus in Mississippi

To the Penal Colony

Dear Casey

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Hard labor

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Good Mother

At the Mind’s Limits

Innocents

Oedipus in Mississippi

To the Penal Colony

Dear Casey

Problem behavior

Hard labor

Readings

Readings

Readings

November 2004

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