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We Asked an Expert How Prison Riots Start
Are riots planned, or do prisoners just reach breaking point?
China's Illegal Organ Harvesting Trade Is Still Booming
The country is still removing organs from its living prisoners and selling them on to individuals from all over the world.
The Feds Are Trying to Decimate the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas
This week, seven members of the powerful race-based prison gang were sentenced for their roles in its culture of violence.
The Visual Encyclopaedia of Russian Jail Tattoos
I spoke to the publisher of a new book about Soviet prison ink.
How A Mentally Ill Homeless Man Baked in His Rikers Jail Cell
A mentally ill former Marine, “basically baked to death” in his 6-by-10 cinderblock cell in Rikers Island. How urban jails became default mental hospitals.
Jake Gyllenhaal Is the Perfect Gumshoe in ‘Prisoners’
Jake Gyllenhaal is back as a hard-hitting actor and I love it.
The Canadian Prison System Is Keeping Prisoners Doped Up On Methadone
Nurses say it's an epidemic of negligence and doctor oversight.
Clive Stafford Smith
Meeting with the lawyer who's leading the fight for the Guantanamo Bay hunger strikers.
Fantastical Portraiture
Over the last four years, we, the photographers of Grupo Mirada Photo of Córdoba, Argentina, have given a photo workshop in the province's highest-security women's prison.