Intricate, invisible webs, just like this one, link some of the world’s largest food companies and most popular brands to jobs performed by U.S. prisoners nationwide, according to a sweeping…
In a sweeping two-year investigation, The Associated Press found U.S. prison labor tied to hundreds of popular food brands. The goods end up on the shelves of most supermarkets and…
At the Mountain View Correctional Facility, in Charleston, Maine, incarcerated people don't just eat healthy -- they grow the food themselves. It's part of a philosophy that says that people…
being okay with state violence
“Prison is an oasis for me—a place for relaxation and comfort. I don’t have freedom here, but I have nothing to worry about, either. There are many people to talk…
Birman says Brown's story is likely returning to the spotlight because more women are feeling compelled to come forward about sexual abuse. He says Brown hopes her case has an…
Robert King Wilkerson was imprisoned at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola for 31 years, twenty-nine of those years in solitary confinement. During that time he created a clandestine kitchen in…
McGahey had heard of Christian Alcoholics & Addicts in Recovery. People called it “the Chicken Farm,” a rural retreat where defendants stayed for a year, got addiction treatment and learned…
Of, relating to, or suggesting a jail or prison.