carceral state The case for getting rid of America's corrupt, expensive, barbaric prisons Elías Villoro
documentaries The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, a documentary about prison and its life in the American Landscape Elías Villoro
gender Two years after a federal law banning shackling women during childbirth was passed, prisoners in America are still giving birth in chains Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism NYC paid McKinsey $27.5m to reduce violence at Riker's, producing useless recommendations backed by junk evidence Cory Doctorow
authoritarianism Cops and spooks all over the world rely on a junk-science "walking polygraph" method to steer their investigation Cory Doctorow
Food The south's latest culinary trend: inadequate, rotting prison food, supplemented by cattle feed Cory Doctorow
Business After Trump reversed Obama's restrictions on private federal prisons, states started banning them instead Cory Doctorow
books In an age of disappearing prison libraries, jail profiteers provide "free" crapgadget tablets that charge prisoners by the minute to read Project Gutenberg ebooks Cory Doctorow
death If you think Jeffrey Epstein was murdered because no prison would treat an inmate that negligently… Cory Doctorow
carceral state Edelman PR drops GEO Group after employee revolt at the prospect of laundering the reputation of private US concentration camps Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Elizabeth Warren proposes a ban on private prisons and immigration facilities Cory Doctorow
Kids After American juvenile offenders are released, they can be re-imprisoned for failing to make restitution payments Cory Doctorow
