Crime and Prison

The Worst of the Worst

On supermax torture in America.

  • Lance Tapley

The Miners

Kept underground in Evin Prison. 

  • Sara Irani

At War In Texas

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

  • Tom Barry

The War for Drugs

How Juárez became the world’s deadliest city.

  • Sarah Hill

Guarded Hope

Lessons from the history of the prison boom.

  • Robert Perkinson

Reentry

Reversing mass imprisonment.

  • Bruce Western

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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

Words Behind Bars

Do prisoners have a right to read what they want?

  • Colin Dayan

Why Are So Many Americans in Prison?

Race and the transformation of criminal justice

  • Glenn C. Loury

Cruel and Unusual

The end of the Eighth Amendment.

  • Colin Dayan

Why We’re So Tough on Crime

The widening divide between America and Europe.

  • Carol S. Steiker

Policing Disorder

Can we reduce serious crime by punishing petty offenses?

  • Bernard E. Harcourt

Deadly Symbiosis

Rethinking race and imprisonment in twenty-first-century America.

  • Loïc Wacquant

Recent Books on Capital Punishment

 The nine volumes under review here add much of value to the already burgeoning literature on the death penalty.

  • Hugo Adam Bedau

The Campaign to Save Mumia Abu-Jamal

The former members of the Black Panthers is on death row. 

  • Loren Goldner

A Matter of State

On the most important treason trial in South Africa in three decades.

  • Rose Moss
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