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Salon.com
March 29, 2000
Nell Bernstein |
When the jailhouse is far from home Kids with parents behind bars share the pain of incarceration.   |
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... |
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 25, 2000
Nell Bernstein |
Motherless children The drug war has stamped an entire class of parents as permanently unfit... |
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
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." |
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? |
Reason
March 2009
Jacob Sullum |
Misery Gets Company Incarceration record |
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. |
AskMen.com
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. |
ifeminists
August 4, 2004
Wendy McElroy |
In Defense of 'Deadbeat' Dads It is time for the prison release of impoverished deadbeat dads to become official policy in every corner of North America. |
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... |
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. |
ifeminists
August 19, 2003
Jennifer Roback Morse |
Parents or Prisons For some people, prisons are a substitute for parents. This apparent overstatement is shorthand for two more precise points. |
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... |
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. |
Salon.com
August 29, 2000
Bruce Shapiro |
Prison politics Under Gov. George W. Bush, Texas has the largest -- and fastest growing -- incarcerated population in America. |
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, 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... |
AskMen.com
Nick Clarke |
How To: Survive Jail Entering prison is not like your first day at school -- it's worse. |
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? |
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. |
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. |
Salon.com
January 24, 2002
Pegi Taylor |
Out of the frying pan, into group therapy A new Supreme Court ruling could increase the number of former sex offenders released into the community. For these ex-cons, the end of detention marks the beginning of intense, and possibly endless, therapy... |
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. |
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 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... |
| AskMen.com |
Infinite Jail Terms For Sex Crimes? The Supreme Court will decide the constitutionality of a federal law that permits sex offenders to be kept behind bars after they complete their prison terms. |
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
October 30, 2002
Nell Bernstein |
The drug war's littlest victims Measures to put drug abusers in rehab instead of jail could rescue their kids from the cycle of addiction, foster care and crime. |
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. |
Reason
February 2003
Jacob Sullum |
Dangerous Assumption Sex offender registration: One of the main rationales for singling out sex offenders is the assumption that they are especially likely to commit new crimes. That belief, although widely held, seems to have little basis in fact. |
Salon.com
July 26, 2001
Arianna Huffington |
Busting the prison-industrial complex After years of tougher sentencing laws and increased incarceration of juveniles, the tide in California is beginning to turn... |
Financial Advisor
March 2011
Caren Chesler |
Homeward Bound In a tough economic environment, some clients must deal with their children moving back home. |
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. |
Salon.com
July 31, 2000
Bruce Shapiro |
Hard time for soft crimes Two million Americans are locked up, most for nonviolent drug offenses. Some maverick Republicans -- yes, Republicans -- are trying to change that. |
Smithsonian
May 2007
Eric Jaffe |
Breaking into Alcatraz A former guard's inside look at America's most famous prison |
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? |
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
June 18, 2001
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Nowhere left to hide Whether you're in jail or at the supermarket, your image might be shown on the Net, and there's not a thing you can do about it... |
American Journal of Nursing
July 2011
Dowdell et al. |
Original Research: Online Social Networking Patterns Among Adolescents, Young Adults, and Sexual Offenders The use of online social networks like Facebook continues to increase rapidly among all age groups and segments of our society, presenting new opportunities for the exchange of sexual information as well as unsafe encounters. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2005
Tekla S. Perry |
Recycling Behind Bars U.S. prison practices blacken computer and television recycling efforts. |
Inc.
January 2009
Mike Hofman |
Some Good Earners Preparing prison inmates to start businesses upon their release. |
The Motley Fool
March 21, 2005
Lawrence Meyers |
Don't Go Directly to Jail Do private prisons make for secure investments? Four major public companies currently deal in this business: Cornell Corrections, Corrections Corporation of America, Correctional Services, and The Geo Group. |
Salon.com
September 4, 2001
David Horowitz |
Pardoned, but unforgiving After being pardoned by Bill Clinton, former Weatherman member Linda Evans is still an enemy of American democracy... |
Inc.
April 1, 2010
April Joyner |
CEO Passions: Teaching Prisoners Brian Hamilton, co-founder and CEO of Sageworks, teaches entrepreneurship to prisoners. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
