Life Inside
September 12
“They booked me into a cell where there was a paper sign over the toilet saying DON’T DRINK THE WATER.”
Life Inside
September 5
“The typing room is where the optimism of naive, hopeful, recently incarcerated inmates goes to die.”
Life Inside
August 15
Highlights of prisoner travel include gang fights, overflowing toilets and two weeks shackled to a neo-Nazi.
Analysis
August 9
If it sounds too good to be true, legal experts say, it probably is.
Life Inside
January 17
There will be beans (there's always beans). And half of a chicken.
News
January 7
Family visits canceled, guards driving for Uber, rising tensions and more.
Feature
November 21, 2018
The Bureau of Prisons set higher standards for psychiatric care. But instead of helping more inmates, the agency dropped thousands from its caseload, data shows.
Feature
March 7, 2018
“Compassionate release” has bipartisan support as a way to reduce the federal prison population and save taxpayer money. New data shows that it’s rarely used.
News
August 23, 2017
Mark Inch is about to find out.
News
July 12, 2017
A new report contradicts a claim from the Bureau of Prisons.