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The Frame March 5
Policing a City in Crisis
In ‘Flint Town’, a new documentary series on Netflix, cops wrestle with broken bonds with their community.
By Celina Fang
News January 16
When Your Prison Becomes Your Paycheck
Some states are welcoming back ex-offenders to work behind bars.
By Maurice Chammah and Joseph Neff
Life Inside February 2, 2017
Working With Prisoners Makes It Hard To Be a Mom
Discipline at work, leniency at home—with doubts.
By Cary Johnson, as told to Maurice Chammah
Life Inside February 25, 2016
What It’s Like to Be Gay in Prison
When the people in charge are homophobic.
By Corbett J. Yost
Feature January 7, 2016
How to Get Out of Solitary — One Step at a Time
New programs are easing inmates out of years of solitary confinement with surprising outcomes for both prisoners and corrections officers.
By Maurice Chammah
News August 7, 2015
No Pets for Pariahs
Postscript on the travails of a teenage sex offender.
By Maura Ewing
News May 15, 2015
The ‘Candy Bar Movie’
Why Michigan prisoners aren't taking a video about prison rape seriously.
By Maurice Chammah
News April 14, 2015
Two Confessions
One by a nervous kid. One by a self-styled hit man. A Detroit whodunnit.
By Andrew Cohen
Feature February 25, 2015
A Boy Among Men
What happens when you throw a teenager into an adult prison? Guess.
By Maurice Chammah
News December 17, 2014
Peeping Toms
Do prison inmates have a right to privacy?
By Alysia Santo

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