Incarceration

An essential new volume collects accounts of Japanese incarceration by patriotic idealists, righteous firebrands, and downtrodden cynics alike.

Public defenders represent eighty per cent of all people charged with a crime in this country, and they typically work in offices that are underfunded and understaffed.

Her music makes me feel that I’m still part of the world I left behind.

The members of the Indiana Women’s Prison History Project are able to scrutinize official records not only for what they reveal but also for what they omit.

Every week for a year, I pushed a cart of books through the largest jail complex in New York City.

Trevell Coleman killed a man in 1993. More than a decade later, he turned himself in—has he been punished enough?

James Burns and Shal Ngo’s documentary short offers a window into the harsh reality of solitary confinement—and the long-term scars that it leaves.

She became infamous for her involvement in acts of political violence. Then she found her way out of the abyss.

What Eddy Zheng taught himself—and me—when he was in prison.

“The Interview,” by Jon Miller and Zach Russo, shines a light on the intricacies of parole in New York State from the perspective of those who were eventually granted it.

Quntos KunQuest has been in Angola for twenty-five years. But his début novel, “This Life,” isn’t the usual story of time behind bars.

For those navigating the challenges of reëntry, it can help to have a tough-minded guide with lived experience.

As the country’s infection rates have risen, a clearer picture has emerged of whose lives the President apparently deems disposable.

The coronavirus is permanently changing the role of New York City’s public burial ground.

Infections in the city’s jails are growing quickly, and John Springs is one of the many people worrying about the safety of incarcerated people.

The San Francisco District Attorney, whose father is an elderly member of the prison population, is urging politicians and criminal-justice leaders to protect incarcerated individuals who are vulnerable to the disease.

The U.S. as a whole may be able to flatten the curve of the coronavirus outbreak, but prisons, jails, and immigration detention centers can expect to see a largely “uncontrolled, unflattened curve,” an epidemiology professor said.

A new show at the Drawing Center explores how incarcerated artists use found materials to imagine themselves into freedom.

In “The Bedroom Project,” the photographer Sara Bennett trains her lens on the aftermath of incarceration, visiting women who have finished long sentences and photographing them where they live.

At the time of Epstein’s death, he had lost what sociopaths like him value most: control.