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After 5 Deaths in State Prisons In Recent Weeks, Mississippi Moving Inmates to Private Facilities. Here's What to Know

By Josiah Bates

Sentenced to Life As a Teen, D.C. Inmate Championed by Kim Kardashian Released After More Than 20 Years in Prison

By Josiah Bates

While Prisoners Struggle to Afford Calls to Their Families, States Are Making a Profit. This Must Stop Now

By Clint Smith

9 Killed, Dozens Escape in Brazil Prison Riot

By Eli Meixler
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Private Prisons Lock Up Thousands Of Americans With Almost No Oversight

America’s for-profit prison industry controls 126,000 Americans’ lives. It’s a $5 billion sector — one that encompasses the operation of 65% of the nation’s immigration detention beds. And at the same time, it is largely...

By Lauren-Brooke Eisen

The Destructive Lie Behind "Mass Incarceration"

That term is hiding what's actually happening in the correctional system

By Elizabeth Gaynes

Why We Should Regulate Self-Driving Cars like Drugs

These are today's best ideas

By The Aspen Institute

We Need 'Open Source' Crops

These are today's best ideas

By The Aspen Institute

Youth Prisons Don't Work

These are today's best ideas

By The Aspen Institute

How Racial Stereotypes Rob Us of Great Athletes

These are today's best ideas

By The Aspen Institute

Karachi, Pakistan's Largest City, Will Be Run from Jail

The man set to be elected mayor has been imprisoned for over a month

By Rishi Iyengar

How Nature Can Help Prisoners

Inmates who watch nature videos have fewer violent infractions

By Alexandra Sifferlin

Messi to Appeal Sentence for Tax Fraud

Messi's attorneys said "there is a good chance the appeal will succeed"

By Rishi Iyengar

Oscar Pistorius Gets 6 Years for Murder

The judge declined to impose the minimum 15-year sentence requested by state prosecutors

By Rishi Iyengar

Turkey Jails Man for Comparing President Erdogan to Gollum

The Lord of the Rings character is described as a "slimy creature"

By Rishi Iyengar

Gucci Mane to Stage Homecoming Concert

The rap star was released from prison last month

By TIME Staff

Here's How Humans Learn To Be Selfish

These are today's best ideas

By The Aspen Institute

How I Helped Raise My Kids From Prison

Mandatory minimum sentences changed my life

By Weldon Angelos

11 Sentenced to Life in Prison for Massacre During 2002 Gujarat Riots

Nearly 70 people were burned alive in one of the worst incidents of the 2002 Gujarat riots

By Rishi Iyengar

Inside the Hell of Venezuelan Police Prisons

20,000 inmates are being kept in prisons designed for just 5,000

By Ioan Grillo/Caracas and Jorge Benezra/Caracas
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