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Heather Tirado Gilligan
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May 14, 2018
This Freedom Rider was shot at, attacked, and put on death row—all by 20 years old
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Rian Dundon
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Jan 25, 2018
These photos of incarcerated Hungarian kids were banned 40 years ago
Now photographer Ádám Urbán has…
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Jan 2, 2018
Watch: The rise, fall, and return of the prison newspaper
Prison papers have helped change attitudes about incarceration
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Pete Brook
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Dec 4, 2017
20 years of prison polaroids chart son’s resolve
In publishing his family photos, Davi Russo aims to…
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Timeline
Oct 11, 2017
Johnny Cash performed in dozens of prisons because he believed in redemption
The prison-reform legacy of an American icon
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Feb 28, 2017
In small town America, sometimes prisons are the best bet
Some actually fight to have one built in…
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Meagan Day
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Sep 9, 2016
The story of the Attica riot that changed American prison conditions
Forty five years ago, the bloody…
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Matt Reimann
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Aug 22, 2016
The dramatic rise of the biggest private prison contractor
“You just sell it like you were selling…
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Tim Townsend
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Feb 11, 2016
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Sirhan’d me the keys to this cell
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Meagan Day
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Jan 28, 2016
Juvie was supposed to improve conditions for incarcerated youth
So how did it get so inhumane?
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