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When Your Prison Becomes Your Paycheck

The Marshall Project By Maurica Chammah and Joseph Neff In 2010, Cindy Stubbs was nearing the end of a 14-year sentence in a South Carolina pris...

Honolulu Civil Beat By Chad Blair Hawaii's prison population has dropped 5 percent since July 2012, a figure that includes a 12 percent reductio...

The Marshall Project By Jason Naradzay First, let me situate you: doors clanging, people yelling, guards barking. The noise in prison is non-sto...

The Times Herald “He who opens a school door, closes a prison,” said French author Victor Hugo. Perhaps it’s not an apples and oranges compariso...

Governing By Timothy P. Silard There's no mystery about one of the most effective ways to end mass incarceration in America: reducing...

The Connecticut Mirror By Clarice Silber and Jake Kara After years of state-backed efforts to reduce recidivism, a new report made public today ...

The Des Moines Register By Kathy A. Bolten Deb Theeler spent 52 months in prison in the early 2000s — only to find out when she was paroled that...

The Beaver County Times By Marsha Keefer James Hammerly, 36, called himself a “frequent flyer,” cycling in and out of jail most of his adult lif...

Washington Examiner By Naomi Lim Arizona is starting a program designed to help newly released prisoners assimilate into their communities ...

The New York Times By Joseph Rodriguez and Nell Bernstein In California, known for decades as one of the nation’s most avid jailers, the traject...