Children Left Behind

In his State of the Union speech this past January, President Bush appeared to make a compassionate gesture toward children with incarcerated parents when he proposed an initiative that would i

Chesa Boudin

Kathy Boudin’s Time

Kathy Boudin’s parole from Bedford Hills Correctional Facility after twenty-two years is welcome and overdue.

The Editors

The Drug War Goes Up in Smoke

A budget crisis and a prison boom make the states a vanguard for drug reform.

Sasha Abramsky

The Supermax Solution

The billboard at the east entrance to the remote rural village of Tamms, Illinois, reads “Tamms: The First Super Max,” and below, in lowercase letters, “a good place to live.” Inmates at Tamms,

Regan Good

Innocent Abroad

I went to a reception the other night to celebrate the efforts of a group called the Innocence Project, which provides legal assistance to prisoners for whom the technology of DNA testing may n

Joyce Maynard

A Cancer Grows

Medical treatment in women’s prisons ranges from brutal to nonexistent.

Cynthia Cooper

Prison’s Shameful Secret

Roderick Johnson, a 33-year-old African-American Navy veteran from a small town in rural Texas, didn’t ask for it. Prison did it to him, and his life will never be the same.

Silja J.A. Talvi

The Shame of Prison Health

Just-released inmates with infectious diseases need continuous treatment.

Sasha Abramsky

Unforgiven

Amy Bach

Death and Texas

The state’s justice system crushes poor people like Ernestina Rodriguez.

JoAnn Wypijewski