At it’s most basic level, incarceration is exchange between an individual and the society in which he or she lives. Before the advent of the carceral punishment, this exchange was pretty direct and tangible. Steal a loaf of bread and… Read More ›
Corrections/Prison News
Trading Warm Bodies For Cold Cash: How The Private Prison Industry Capitalizes On Human Suffering
Time has a way of softening terminology, especially with regards to things we’d rather not think about and don’t entirely understand. During World War I, a British physician named Charles Samuel Myers wrote an article in The Lancet, using the… Read More ›
The Quality of Mercy in Oklahoma
Go to Oklahoma and you will find the quality of mercy is now strained. It withers in the rainless, nameless plains out west and finds no purchase in the Cross Timbers or the Red River Basin down south. Twice profaned… Read More ›
Watching As He Wastes Away: How a Kentucky Prison Let a Mentally Ill Man Starve to Death
As I type this, a delectable, carbohydrate filled pretzel bagel from Servatti’s is busy baking in the convection oven of my favorite coffee shop. Within the next minute or so that bagel will be brought out to my table and… Read More ›
The Eye of God Looks Upon You: Eastern State Penitentiary & The Failure of Solitary Confinement
In three of the four Gospels of the New Testament, the two thieves crucified on either side of Jesus are but bit players. The Gospels of Matthew and Mark portray them as impertinent and ignorant men who readily echoed the… Read More ›
Virally Suppressed - Muckraking For The Modern World 