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Justice
‘I feel quite desperate right now’: In leaked databases, Uyghurs search for names of the missing
Soldiers with the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces check a house in Hassakeh, Syria, Jan. 25, 2022. After breaking into the prison late Thursday, ISIS militants were joined by others rioting inside the facility that housed over 3,000 inmates, including
Youth
Three months after ISIS attacked a prison in northeast Syria, the fate of at least 100 child detainees remains unclear
US ex-Marine Trevor Reed, who was detained in 2019 and accused of assaulting police officers, stands inside a defendants' cage during a court hearing in Moscow, Russia, March 11, 2020.
Global Politics
Ex-Marine’s Russian imprisonment is ‘political,’ his father says, calling for his release
Chanthon Bun, who was incarcerated for 23 years, part of that time in San Quentin State Prison in California, shows artwork from an origami course offered in the prison.
Immigration
He’s out of prison and has COVID-19. But he’s still sheltering from ICE.
A police officer stands in front of a red London bus
Conflict & Justice
After attacks, UK rethinks early release law for convicted terrorists
A woman sits on a bench in jail.
Justice
Mothers in prison aren’t likely to see their families this Thanksgiving — or any other day
Inside the Fight to Reunite Families Separated at the U.S. Border
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Michael Cohen Claims President Trump Had Prior Knowledge of Trump Tower Meeting
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Senate Confirms Robert Wilkie as New Veterans Affairs Secretary
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Cherise Greer
Conflict
Here’s a list of ways to help women who’ve been incarcerated
The icon for female is behind bars surrounded by a brick wall.
Conflict
There are more women in prison than ever before
Arts, Culture & Media
The Musical Legacy of Attica
Arts, Culture & Media
Prison Design
Arts, Culture & Media
Steve Earle on Prisons
Arts, Culture & Media
What’s At Hand
Arts, Culture & Media
What’s at Hand
Arts, Culture & Media
Michael Jackson’s Global Reach
Arts, Culture & Media
Filipino Inmates’ Tribute to MJ
Arts, Culture & Media
360 Staff Pick: Blame
WMMT-FM DJ Sylvia Ryerson.
Justice
The radio show connecting prisoners to family and friends
Saudi men walk at the entrance to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, where U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is staying in Riyadh March 4, 2013.
Global Politics
What’s it like inside Riyadh’s five-star ‘prison’?
Alex Diaz at a College Bound Dorchester graduation ceremony on Aug. 24, 2017.
Education
The road from prison to college is a hard one. Here’s how this new high school graduate made it.
The firm grip of inequality.
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The remorseful executioner.
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After the shooting.
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Mario Martinez
Global Politics
Serving in the US military won’t protect these veterans from being deported
Angelo Pesce
Global Politics
Convicted scammer creates federal PACs from prison
Prisoners released
Conflict
After being apart for years, four prisoners released from Guantanamo are reunited with loved ones in Saudi Arabia
The Debate of The Century, Protesting Rikers, Trusting the Military
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Obama’s Farewell to Asia, Cross-Border Education, Exonerating an Icon
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Kelly Orians facilitates a weekly discussion group for formerly incarcerated entrepreneurs. Until their new space is fully renovated, they meet in the back of an events hall in New Orleans' Gentilly neighborhood.
Justice
Getting out of prison it’s hard to find a job. Why not help ex-prisoners start their own businesses?
Psychedelic Science, Restorative Radio, Obamacare Battle
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The GOP Debate, Baseball’s Black Problem, A Cashless Economy
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Suicide & Brotherhood, America’s Prison Problem, The Pope in the U.S.
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The Digital Wild West, Changing Immigration, America’s Highways
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Agreeing On Criminal Justice, Curbing Summer A/C, Cartel Land, School Libraries
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Smoke rose from the Metropolitan Remand Centre in Ravenhall, Melbourne.
Justice
For these prisoners in Australia, taking away their cigarettes might have been the last straw
Activists put banner on pedestrian bridge in Rio
Justice
Brazil’s new idea to fight crime: Sentence teens to adult jails
Graduates of a prison computer coding class at work inside San Quentin, in California.
Education
Should we let more prisoners take college classes?
Jukka Tiihonen served the last few years of his sentence for murder at this open prison on Suomenlinna Island. The yellow fence, with a sign saying, "Labor Colony" in Finnish, Swedish, English, and Russian, separates the prison from a neighborhood.
Justice
In Finland’s ‘open prisons,’ inmates have the keys
Music
‘I Have No Everything Here.’ From an overcrowded prison in Malawi, moving music
Mohamedou Ould Slahi has been imprisoned at Guantánamo since 2002 without charges.
Books
US censors make 2,500 cuts to first-ever published diary by Guantanamo detainee
Orange is the New Black actress Diane Guerrero.
Global Politics
‘Orange is the New Black’ star Diane Guerrero describes her parents’ deportation
Gael García Bernal plays Iranian reporter Maziar Bahari in "Rosewater."
Media
The journalist profiled in Jon Stewart’s ‘Rosewater’ finds dark humor In Iran’s prisons
Conflict & Justice
Blogging behind bars
Global Politics
Manning’s safety in question as a transgendered person in military prison
Conflict & Justice
Panelists introduce high-tech prison reform at SXSW
Global Politics
Two Louisiana prisoners mark 40 years spent in solitary confinement
California Prison System Sees Scrutiny for Overcrowding, Inhumane Conditions
In California, Almost 30,000 Inmates Go on Hunger Strike
Making The Case: Arguments For and Against Solitary Confinement
Conflict & Justice
Delhi Gang Rape Suspect ‘Commits Suicide’ in Prison
Geo Quiz
One Scandinavian Nation Remembers Johnny Cash’s Prison Concert
Conflict & Justice
Brazilian Prisoners Read Books to Reduce Sentences
The Angola Three and Solitary Confinement
Incarceration in America: Barriers to Re-entry
Prison Ponies
Sports
True second chances rare for convicted felons
Conflict & Justice
California prison case heads to Supreme Court
Conflict & Justice
The adventures of an accidental prison librarian