Toxic Recycling Toxic Recycling
Recycling electronics using US prison labor is a booming business, with a captive workforce paid pennies per hour for dangerous work that is largely unregulated. The human and en...
Nov 3, 2005 / Feature / Elizabeth Grossman
The Theater of Cruelty The Theater of Cruelty
The detainee abuses at Abu Ghraib were both a continuation and a divergence from historical prison practices.
Jun 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Amitav Ghosh
Time to End Recidivism Time to End Recidivism
What about the 178 women who will be released from US prisons every day of the year?
Mar 4, 2005 / Editorial / Richard M. Aborn
In the Penal Colony In the Penal Colony
Alberto Gonzales's nomination to succeed John Ashcroft as Attorney General put the Abu Ghraib torture scandal back on the front pages, since he was directly implicated, as White ...
Jan 20, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Lisa Hajjar
Prosecuting US Torture Prosecuting US Torture
Did anyone in the Bush White House cast an uneasy eye over the new indictment of Gen. Augusto Pinochet?
Dec 16, 2004 / Editorial / The Editors
Presumed Innocent Presumed Innocent
Unlike news reports, theater isn't expected to stick to the facts. By nature, the form is duplicitous, built on a sandy foundation of make-believe and pretense.
Oct 14, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Alisa Solomon
Reforming Three Strikes Reforming Three Strikes
In November, California voters will have their first chance in a decade to reform the state's "three strikes and you're out" law, which has imposed cruel life sentences on th...
Oct 14, 2004 / Editorial / Louis Freedberg
Incarceration, Inc. Incarceration, Inc.
Private prisons thrive on cheap labor and the hunger of job-starved towns.
Jul 1, 2004 / Feature / Sasha Abramsky
Hawks Eating Crow Hawks Eating Crow
The Bush Administration has not made it easy on its supporters. David Brooks now admits that he was gripped with a "childish fantasy" about Iraq.
May 20, 2004 / Column / Eric Alterman
Orders to Torture Orders to Torture
The Abu Ghraib prison scandal now implicates the highest levels of the Bush Administration in violating federal law and in war crimes.
May 20, 2004 / Editorial / The Editors