Pennsylvania

The Frame October 4

A Pennsylvania artist draws hundreds of fellow inmates to show the scale of mass incarceration.

By Maurice Chammah
Illustrations by Mark Loughney

Life Inside November 17, 2016

“Her eyes were slightly open, but vacant.”

By Stephanie Moyer

Feature October 26, 2016

28 Days in Chains

In this federal prison, inmates have a choice: live with a violent cellmate or end up in shackles.

By Christie Thompson and Joseph Shapiro

Case in Point September 22, 2016

In Pennsylvania, the heart of solitary confinement reform, an intellectually disabled inmate says he’s been held in wretched isolation for 36 years.

By Andrew Cohen

Commentary June 9, 2016

Poster Child

How Terrance Williams became the face of the death penalty debate in Pennsylvania.

By Andrew Cohen

Q&A June 7, 2016

Who knew cell phones had a smell?

By Maurice Chammah

News November 3, 2015

An expensive, tough-on-crime race tests the current system.

By Christie Thompson

News August 11, 2015

A closer look at get-tough DAs.

By Simone Seiver

Feature August 4, 2015

Should prison sentences be based on crimes that haven’t been committed yet?

By Anna Maria Barry-Jester, Ben Casselman and Dana Goldstein

News April 17, 2015

An immigration detention facility tries a new method for curbing sexual assault: Make the women dress differently.

By Maurice Chammah