In the Prison of Your Skin
February 1, 2019
What a young female journalist discovers inside one of Peru’s most dangerous prisons
Guernica
A Magazine of Global Arts & Politics
DonateJustice
Report
Video
Presented by SIMA: The Walls
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.
Lives
On the Edge of Seventeen
October 19, 2018
A teenage boy, a violent incident, and twenty years of reckoning.
Review
Life on Mars
August 9, 2018
Rachel Kushner's new novel, The Mars Room, is a study in empathy.
Report
That Night, It Never Ends: A Story of Life With or Without Parole
June 28, 2018
Should a convicted murderer ever be given another chance?
Essay
Is the US Border Patrol Committing Crimes Against Humanity?
May 2, 2018
What would it take you, personally, to deny water to someone dying of thirst?
Comics
The Father of Three Bracing for Deportation
April 4, 2018
Felix Garcia, a Guatemalan immigrant, is scheduled to be deported today. This is his story.
Interview
Kimberlé Crenshaw: Up in Arms, a Conversation About Women and Weapons
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.
Essay
How Much Easier to Hate
March 15, 2018
A formerly incarcerated writer reflects on what prison can do to a person.
Report
How a Cop-Watcher Is Born
February 26, 2018
The citizens who patrol the borderland between our freedom and the police.