Locked Up Without a Key in New Orleans Locked Up Without a Key in New Orleans
Seven years after Katrina, poor people accused of crimes are being denied their right to counsel and left to languish behind bars.
Aug 22, 2012 / Feature / Karen Houppert
The Uncertain Fate of Pennsylvania’s Juvenile Lifers The Uncertain Fate of Pennsylvania’s Juvenile Lifers
What will Pennsylvania do with prisoners like Sharon Wiggins, who has been locked up for more than forty years for a crime she committed at 17?
Aug 7, 2012 / Liliana Segura and Matt Stroud
Jean Casella: Is Solitary Confinement Torture? Jean Casella: Is Solitary Confinement Torture?
How does having too many postage stamps in prison land you alone in a bathroom-sized cell, 23 hours each day for a month?
Jul 26, 2012 / Audio / The Nation
New York’s Black Sites New York’s Black Sites
As states like Mississippi reject solitary confinement, this “blue” state leads the nation in the use of “disciplinary segregation.” Or as prisoners call it...
Jul 11, 2012 / Feature / Jean Casella and James Ridgeway
Interns’ Favorite Pieces of the Week (7/4/12) Interns’ Favorite Pieces of the Week (7/4/12)
Every week, Nation interns try to cut through the echo chamber and choose one good article in their area of interest that they feel should receive more attention.
Jul 5, 2012 / StudentNation / The Nation
How the US Rendered, Tortured and Discarded One Innocent Man How the US Rendered, Tortured and Discarded One Innocent Man
“Captured in Somalia in 2003, Suleiman Abdallah was one of the ‘disappeared’ prisoners of the ‘war on terror.’ When I finally found him years later, h...
Jun 27, 2012 / Feature / Clara Gutteridge
The Supreme Court Gives (Some) Juvenile Lifers a Second Chance The Supreme Court Gives (Some) Juvenile Lifers a Second Chance
Why did the Court limit its ruling to cases with mandatory sentences, instead of banning juvenile life without parole altogether?
Jun 26, 2012 / Blog / Liliana Segura
How Many Innocent People Have We Sent To Prison? How Many Innocent People Have We Sent To Prison?
A new database is being called the “Wikipedia of Innocence” for its unprecedented look at wrongful convictions.
May 30, 2012 / Editorial / Liz Webster
How Mandatory Sentencing Laws Are Sending Juveniles to Prison for Life How Mandatory Sentencing Laws Are Sending Juveniles to Prison for Life
Why is a first-world country imprisoning its children for life?
May 10, 2012 / Video / Francis Reynolds
Throwaway People: Teens Sent to Die in Prison Will Get a Second Chance Throwaway People: Teens Sent to Die in Prison Will Get a Second Chance
Trina Garnett accidentally set a fatal fire when she was 14. That was in 1976. Could today’s Supreme Court ruling against juvenile life without parole finally bring her home?
May 9, 2012 / Feature / Liliana Segura