Feature
July 1
When COVID-19 threatened the jail in Tyler, Texas, an activist pressured her sheriff to make change.
The California Experiment
April 23, 2019
Effort to cut prison overcrowding puts some jails in crisis.
Feature
March 22, 2019
Can New York City build its way out of mass incarceration?
Feature
November 27, 2018
Our prisons are our mental wards. One fatal case in New York shows where that can lead.
Life Inside
April 19, 2018
As darkness fell, nerves got rattled and rumors spread.
News
January 23, 2018
A glitch in North Carolina law is trapping people for years in unequipped jails.
Analysis
September 15, 2016
Her death at a Texas jail spurred a striking amount of reform talk across political lines.
Feature
March 24, 2016
Imagine living in a cell that’s smaller than a parking space — with a homicidal roommate.
Life Inside
March 4, 2016
What it’s like to slowly lose your mind in the grossest corner of the prison-industrial complex.