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Ben Dutka |
Top 10: Notorious Prisons The following is a list of the 10 most notorious jails on earth; they are the worst of the worst and the lowest of the low.   |
Salon.com
March 29, 2001
Maria Russo |
Psycho factories Nonviolent criminals go in and sadistic thugs come out, but with military spending down, America's small towns are hooked on prisons... |
ifeminists
September 16, 2003
Wendy McElroy |
Confronting Prison Rape A bright light is about to be shone on an almost unseen social problem: prison rape. On Sept. 4, President Bush signed the Prison Rape Elimination Act, which provides for an annual Department of Justice review on the rate and effects of prison rape. Why should you care? |
Smithsonian
May 2007
Eric Jaffe |
Breaking into Alcatraz A former guard's inside look at America's most famous prison |
Salon.com
July 13, 2000
Damien Cave |
Jailhouse Net Inmates with e-mail? It could happen at some state prisons experimenting with technology behind bars. |
Salon.com
October 10, 2000
Eric Lassiter |
"Scared Straight" for the business set MBA students take a mandatory trip to prison for a lesson on ethics from corporate criminals... |
Reason
May 2007
Cathy Young |
Assault Behind Bars How big a problem is prison rape in the U.S. -- and what can be done about it? |
AskMen.com
Mr. Mafioso |
Mafioso: Worst Prisons In America If you ever have to serve time, pray you don't have to do it in one of these, the worst prisons in America. |
Fast Company
September 2002
Chuck Salter |
From the Penthouse to the Big House David Novak did time as a white-collar crook at Eglin Federal Prison Camp, aka Club Fed. Now he advises first-time felons on how to survive life on the inside. Hey, Ken and Jeff (and Bernie and Sam and Dennis), would you like his number? |
Salon.com
May 8, 2002
Nell Bernstein |
Punishment for the whole family California prison officials want to prohibit parents convicted of drug offenses from touching their children -- even infants and toddlers -- for one year... |
Salon.com
March 29, 2001
Damien Cave |
The business of law and order The author of "Going up the River" says that the booming private-prison industry is due for a bust... |
Salon.com
January 23, 2001
Ashley Fantz |
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... |
Salon.com
March 29, 2000
Nell Bernstein |
When the jailhouse is far from home Kids with parents behind bars share the pain of incarceration. |
Wired
May 22, 2009
Vince Beiser |
Prisoners Run Gangs, Plan Escapes, and Even Order Hits With Smuggled Cellphones Prisoners are using cell phones to make calls, send text messages, and email to taunt their victims, intimidate witnesses, run gangs, and organize escapes. |
Real Travel Adventures
January 2008
Antonio Graceffo |
Philippines Progressive Rehabilitation Program A penal colony in the Philippines may serve as an innovative model for prisoner reform. |
Inc.
April 1, 2010
April Joyner |
CEO Passions: Teaching Prisoners Brian Hamilton, co-founder and CEO of Sageworks, teaches entrepreneurship to prisoners. |
BusinessWeek
July 4, 2005
Geri Smith |
Sister Of Mercy "The Prison Angel" provides an effective portrayal of the human side of Mexico's broken justice system through the tale of an American nun ministering to inmates in Tijuana's toughest jail. |
Reason
August 2003
Jesse Walker |
Rape Behind Bars A left/right coalition has assembled behind H.R. 1707, the Prison Rape Reduction Act of 2003. The bill would conduct more complete research on the problem and would "provide information, resources, recommendations, and funding to protect individuals from prison rape." The Justice Dept. opposes it. |
BusinessWeek
March 17, 2011
Graeme Wood |
A Boom Behind Bars Private jail operators like the Corrections Corporation of America are making millions off the crackdown on illegal aliens. |
Geotimes
August 2005
Megan Sever |
Geology 101 in Prison An innovative program at San Quentin State Prison in California is offering college degrees to inmates, who can take courses in philosophy, sociology, government and geology. The program is run entirely on donations. |
Adventure
Dec 2003/Jan 2004
Shan-san Wu |
The Atkins Zone The Houdini of fast escapes from international prisons advises on how to get out--and stay out--of jail while traveling abroad. Plus, some good reasons to avoid getting slammed in these six notorious tourist traps. |
Salon.com
July 20, 2000
Nell Bernstein |
Swept away Thousands of women, often guilty of little more than lousy judgment, are serving long prison sentences as drug "conspirators." |
Mother Jones
June 2000
Barry Yeoman |
Steel Town Lockdown Corrections Corporation of America is trying to turn Youngstown, Ohio, into the private-prison capital of the world. |
Vietnam
October 27, 2004
Joe Kolb |
Fighting Forces: Camp LBJ The notorious U.S. Army Vietnam Installation Stockade was known to GIs as the Long Binh Jail--or simply Camp LBJ. |
Inc.
January 2009
Mike Hofman |
Some Good Earners Preparing prison inmates to start businesses upon their release. |
ifeminists
September 24, 2009
Wendy McElroy |
America's debtor prisons for men While imprisonment for debt was eliminated in this country in the 19th century, it has re-emerged under a new name: contempt of court. |
Salon.com
August 27, 2001
Sara Kelly |
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... |
Reason
June 2007
David Weigel |
Farmer in the Cell After a crackdown on illegal immigration, farmers in the rural area outside Pueblo, Colorado, found they lacked the labor to help them plant and harvest crops. One answer is to use prison inmates. |
Salon.com
October 25, 2000
Nell Bernstein |
Motherless children The drug war has stamped an entire class of parents as permanently unfit... |
Reason
February 2008
Radley Balko |
Soundbite: Prisoner of Pain Richard Paey, a paraplegic with multiple sclerosis, served three years of a 25-year prison sentence before Florida's Republican governor, Charlie Crist, pardoned him. |
Sports Central
December 8, 2005
Zach Jones |
It's an NBA World Whoever said bad-boy athletes aren't role models didn't have a week like this. |
Fast Company
March 2015
Baratunde Thurston |
It's Time for Tech to Embrace Prison Reform What if the resourcefulness and hustle currently trapped behind bars could flood back into a nation that needs it? |
Reason
March 2009
Jacob Sullum |
Misery Gets Company Incarceration record |
ifeminists
June 14, 2007
Carey Roberts |
Women Above the Law? In a civilized society that prides itself on rule of law, rights go hand in hand with responsibilities. Does anyone believe that women should be exempt from that time-honored principle? |
American History
William & Mary Lavender |
Suffragists' Storm Wartime Washington dealt brutally with imprisoned suffragists who dared picket the White House for the right to vote in 1917. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2005
Tekla S. Perry |
Recycling Behind Bars U.S. prison practices blacken computer and television recycling efforts. |
Popular Mechanics
February 12, 2008
Erik Sofge |
High-Tech Lockup: Inside 4 Next-Gen Prison Security Systems From radio-frequency identification (RFID) bracelets tracking a suspicious gathering in the library to a scaled-down version of the military's "pain ray," a new crop of high-tech systems is being considered to tamp prison violence. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2007
Radley Balko |
Nowhere to Go U.S. officials are having an increasingly difficult time finding countries willing to grant asylum to Guantanamo inmates cleared of charges. |
Salon.com
August 5, 2002
Michelle Goldberg |
Noelle Bush gets rehab, the poor and black get hard time Fed up with draconian drug penalties, a coalition led by angry mothers is threatening to overturn some of the country's harshest laws. |
Salon.com
August 30, 2001
Nell Bernstein |
Out of the big house and into the trenches Imprisoned under mandatory sentencing, freed by President Clinton, now Kemba Smith and Dorothy Gaines, ex-con mothers, have to get their kids to school on time... |
BusinessWeek
April 21, 2011
Tom McNichol |
Keeping Cell Phones Out of Jail Cells As prisons try to block unauthorized cell phone use, companies are developing systems that cost over $1 million to address the problem. |
AskMen.com
Maggie K. |
Dina Lohan's Lies & More Lindsay Lohan's mom lies... Paris Hilton released from prison... Mischa Barton's alleged drug use... Angeline Jolie wants to be a humanitarian over an actress... Cameron Diaz's men... |
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Typo Costs Man 3 Years A Thai man has been released from an Indonesian prison after spending three extra years behind bars because of a typo in his paperwork, a report said Friday. |
AskMen.com
Ashley Allinson |
Jail Flicks Five great rental bets, bar none, for a night when you find yourself locked in: Escape From Alcatraz (1979)... Midnight Express (1978)... Murder In The First (1995)... Das Experiment (2001)... Carandiru (2003)... |
Salon.com
January 12, 2001
Earl Ofari Hutchinson |
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. |
Salon.com
April 5, 2002
Stephanie Zacharek |
"Lucky Break" Hey, let's put on a show! And bust out of the joint while we're at it! "Full Monty" jailhouse follow-up falls flat... |
Salon.com
July 16, 2002
Arianna Huffington |
Send the bastards to jail! Unlike the majority of nonviolent drug cases, corporate wrongdoers rarely do any time behind bars. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Drones Are Delivering Contraband To Prisons As drones become more ubiquitous, prisons are struggling with the question of how to protect against contraband deliveries from the skies. |
| AskMen.com |
Jails To Charge For Room & Board Several states and some cities have gone to great lengths to squeeze money from inmates. |
AskMen.com
Maggie K. |
Victoria's LA Move & More Victoria Beckham moves to LA... Lindsay Lohan's birthday party... Paris Hilton's jail cell details... Britney Spears bombed... What Nick Carter is doing now... |
