Small Press Points: Lost Kite Editions
“what becomes possible when writers directly impacted by incarceration are treated not as subjects or symbols, but as serious literary thinkers—with the taste, judgment, and vision to help decide what…
This American Life: Unteachable Moment
Stories about people trying to learn something when no one is clear what the lesson is supposed to be.
Dead Man Walking (film)
Dead Man Walking is a 1995 American crime drama film starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn, and co-produced and directed by Tim Robbins, who adapted the screenplay from the 1993…
What ‘don’t drop the soap’ gets wrong
just because someone has committed a crime doesn’t mean they’ve forfeited all their morals and values, and just because someone has been labelled a criminal doesn’t mean they can’t also…
Greenfingers
Greenfingers is a 2000 British comedy film directed and written by Joel Hershman. It is loosely based on the true story about the award-winning prisoners of HMP Leyhill, a minimum-security…
We Tracked Down Who’s Getting Rich Off ICE Warehouse Deals
Multiple ICE warehouses were sold by people in Trump's circle who were sitting on the properties and losing money. We dug into it, and found that some properties were bought…
Top Architecture Firm Won’t Design More ICE Prisons After Employees Revolt
Reading over these examples on the message board rattled the employees who spoke with me. “By the time I got to ‘This isn’t even our first detention center,’ that’s when…
Corporations making money
from human suffering
Contracts Show Millions of Dollars and Diverted Disaster Resources Were Used to Build DeSantis’ ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
TPM has obtained and analyzed over a dozen contracts and invoices related to the construction and operation of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention camp in the…