Essay

Kidnapped, Tortured, and Navigating an Indifferent Court System

By Jen Ross July 31, 2019

After narrowly escaping a violent abduction, Linda Loaiza López has become an activist against gender-based violence.

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Essay

Small Problem

By Helen Benedict July 23, 2019

An encounter with refugees and the legal system of Greece

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Lives

Home Visit

By Lori Lynn Turner April 30, 2019

Making oneself at home in prison

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Report

In the Prison of Your Skin

By Gabriela Wiener February 1, 2019

What a young female journalist discovers inside one of Peru’s most dangerous prisons

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Video

Presented by SIMA: The Walls

By Mary Wang December 21, 2018

Watch this month's documentary, in which a prison debate team joins forces with college students to discuss gun control, even though some inmates have landed there precisely for firearm-related crimes.

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Lives

On the Edge of Seventeen

By Sarah Kasbeer October 19, 2018

A teenage boy, a violent incident, and twenty years of reckoning.

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Review

Life on Mars

By Rob Spillman August 9, 2018

Rachel Kushner's new novel, The Mars Room, is a study in empathy.

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Report

That Night, It Never Ends: A Story of Life With or Without Parole

By J. Malcolm Garcia June 28, 2018

Should a convicted murderer ever be given another chance?

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Essay

Is the US Border Patrol Committing Crimes Against Humanity?

Essay by John Washington May 2, 2018

What would it take you, personally, to deny water to someone dying of thirst?

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Comics

The Father of Three Bracing for Deportation

By Sarah Conway and Daniel Rowell April 4, 2018

Felix Garcia, a Guatemalan immigrant, is scheduled to be deported today. This is his story.

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Interview

Kimberlé Crenshaw: Up in Arms, a Conversation About Women and Weapons

By Nimmi Gowrinathan March 28, 2018

Female Fighters series: The activist-scholar talks about black women and militancy, and whether guns have a place in struggles for liberation.

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