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Crime and prison

Global Justice, Law & Justice

Border Wars

Border Wars offers a stark portrait of the domestic cost of failed federal leadership in the post-9/11 era.

Tom Barry

Law & Justice, Race

Harm's Way

Our penal system, with its black tinge, constitutes a profound racial injustice. But is it a new form of Jim Crow?

James Forman, Jr.

Global Justice, Law & Justice

The Worst of the Worst

Supermax Torture in America

Lance Tapley

Law & Justice

The Miners

Kept underground in Evin Prison. 

Sara Irani

Law & Justice, Politics

At War In Texas

Federal border policy is now effectively dictated by alarmist border-area sheriffs and politicians.

Tom Barry

Class & Inequality, Law & Justice

The War for Drugs

Neoliberalism and the war on drugs combine to ravage Juárez, Mexico, where traffickers, boosted by the economic effects of NAFTA, compete with security officials for control of the narcotics trade.

Sarah Hill

Law & Justice, Race

Guarded Hope

Lessons from the history of the prison boom.

Robert Perkinson

Law & Justice, Race

What We Owe to Incarcerated Fathers

More than 1.5 million children currently have a parent in prison; for 94 percent of these children, that parent is the father.

Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, Mary Lyndon Shanley

Law & Justice, Race

Reentry

Reversing mass imprisonment.

Bruce Western

Global Justice, Law & Justice

Words Behind Bars

Do Prisoners Have a Right to Read What they Want?

Colin Dayan

Class & Inequality, Law & Justice

Why Are So Many Americans in Prison?

Race and the transformation of criminal justice.

Glenn C. Loury

Law & Justice, Politics

Cruel and Unusual

The end of the Eighth Amendment.

Colin Dayan

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