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An illustration shows a Black man sitting cross-legged in the center, holding a crochet needle and yarn. Behind him is a blue crocheted circle, and surrounding the circle are different crocheted items, including a scarf, hat, baby toys, and mittens. Faintly in the background, there are scenes of a person giving crocheted items to people in prison and others wearing crocheted items.
Life Inside December 2, 2022
From Crip to Crochet Artist: How an Unlikely Hobby Changed My Life in Prison
I used to hide this cathartic craft because Crips don’t crochet. But making items that fellow prisoners can give to their loved ones has allowed me to create a peaceful new identity.
By LaMarr W. Knox
Life Inside July 29, 2022
When People Fear Me Based on My Jail Tats and Scars, They Miss the Real Me
A recent ride to a public clinic gave Jose Armendariz a quick break from jail. But he couldn’t escape the fear and judgement of the other patients.
By Jose Armendariz
Insurrectionists broke into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in Washington, DC.
Analysis January 14, 2021
White Terrorism Often Leads to Harsher Punishment for People of Color
Amid calls for tougher laws after the Capitol assault, research shows that measures addressing White violence usually fall harder on Black people.
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Attendees at the Indy 1500 Gun & Knife show in Indianapolis in January.
Southside November 1, 2018
The Gun King
A middle-class college student from the Chicago suburbs used Facebook to sell firearms to gangsters. But was he a kingpin or a scapegoat?
By John H. Richardson
Luis Vicente Pedrote-Salinas filed a federal lawsuit alleging he was targeted by ICE agents for deportation because he was wrongly listed in a Chicago police department gang database.
News August 28, 2017
How ICE Uses Secret Police Databases to Arrest Immigrants
Recent lawsuits claim the agency is targeting people for deportation based on spurious allegations of gang connections.
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A man walks past a corner where a victim of a shooting was discovered in Baltimore in 2015.
News July 27, 2017
Can Sex Sell Peace?
An adman thinks it can help.
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Life Inside June 29, 2017
The Prison Skinhead Gang was My Family. Then I Walked Away
After a violent encounter, an inmate makes a life change.
By Daniel J. Royston
A courtroom sketch depicts James “Whitey” Bulger, center, during a pretrial conference before U.S. District Judge Denise Casper, left rear, in a federal courtroom in Boston Monday, June 3, 2013. Bulger is flanked by his attorneys Henry Brennan, left, and J.W. Carney Jr., standing at right. Jury selection begins Tuesday for Bulger’s trial. (AP Photo/Jane Flavell Collins)
Life Inside March 17, 2016
My Memories of Being in Prison with Whitey Bulger
Tales of the “pale, white-haired, geezer in a wheelchair.”
By Nate A. Lindell
Q&A May 19, 2015
When The Gang-bangers Are White Guys
“If these biker gangs were non-white, we’d have a national freakout.”
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News April 3, 2015
Gangs of New York
Allegations in Harlem the latest blow to a celebrated anti-violence program.
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