My Fellow Prisoners

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• Design

  

  Matthew Fellows is "Hugging His Dreams" with MNKR Tees

  The California-based T-Shirt Designer Matthew Fellows chats with GOOD about tees, tacos, and the shop local movement.

  by Zak Stone

• Technology

  

  What if Scientists Were Like Celebrities?

  Forget boring, irrelevant scientists. This crop of nerds will wow you.

  by Alex Goldmark

• Design

  

  IDEO.org Fellows Bring Beautiful Design to Humanitarian Efforts

  How designers are becoming a new breed of humanitarian innovators through IDEO.org's fellowship program.

  by Courtney Martin

• GOOD Blog

  

  My Moon, My Land

  For geography buffs and real estate sharks, a new frontier: Lunar real estate.In the interest of funding privatized exploration, settlement and...

  by Alexandra Marvar

• Environment

  

  Updated: Bidder 70: "The Path We're On Is Scarier Than Prison"

  Tim DeChristopher's trial is underway in Salt Lake City. Watch this great interview with a true climate hero.

  by Ben Jervey

• Culture

  

  Female Soldiers Now More Likely to Be Assaulted By Fellow Soldiers Than Killed in Combat

  It's really dangerous for women in the military. But that's not because of the putative enemy.

  by Cord Jefferson

• Education

  

  Nerds Rule: Watch This Kid Destroy the Dubious Physics of "My Little Pony"

  Who knew an AP physics project about some obscure cartoon could be so damn entertaining?

  by Cord Jefferson

• GOOD Blog

  

  The Prisoner

  Prison in Bolivia - not at all like the prisons around here. You can buy a better cell and buy better food at food stalls. Each section of the...

  by Anonymous

• GOOD Blog

  

  Prison Sucks

  If you think there's something wrong with the U.S. prison system, you might want to check out the "Prison Nation" exhibit at the Watts Towers Art...

  by Anonymous

• News

  

  No More Prisons

  A nice background story on the closing of the secret CIA prisons. Which are not secret anymore.More from Good: The Prisoner.

  by Anonymous

• News

  

  The Prisoners Dilemma

  Nicholas Kristoff presents an interesting perspective check in his column today, asking why so much money is spent incarcerating shoplifters for...

  by Andrew Price

• Culture

  

  Pictures Inside Prisons

  This month there are two amazing new photo stories by Matt Rainwaters (probably best known for his awesome portfolio of outrageous beards)...

  by Siobhan O'Connor

• News

  

  Should Prisons Offer Yoga?

  This program in India, which allows prisoners to shave time off their prison sentences by taking yoga lessons, got some attention in the media...

  by Andrew Price

• News

  

  YouChoose: America's Prisons

  What should be the role of the prison system? GOOD's Alex Gorosh explores the issue, in verse, in our first YouChoose video.

  by GOOD

• News

  

  Is Saying Sorry Better than Prison?

  To deal with young criminals, Northern Ireland has been experimenting with something they call the "Youth Conference." Instead of sending kids who...

  by Andrew Price

• News

  

  "Random Draconianism" and the Problem with Prison

  Have you thought about the problems with our prison system? I have. And so has Mark Kleiman, a professor at UCLA's public policy...

  by Andrew Price

• News

  

  A Kinder, Gentler Prison in Austria

  The latest issue of The New York Times Magazine looks at a novel prison in Leoben, Austria (slideshow here). Designed by Josef Hohensinn, the...

  by Andrew Price

• Design

  

  Picture Show: Inside a Colombian Prison

  As the home of the infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar, the city of Medellín, Colombia, used to be one of the most violent places in the world....

  by GOOD, Vance Jacobs

• News

  

  Prison and College: California's Ridiculous Priorities

  The University of California is an awesome institution. Its ten campuses give 150,000 college students a high-quality public education every...

  by Andrew Price

• Education

  

  Elite University Starts Schooling Prison Inmates

  Well this is something: Wesleyan, one of the country's more elite schools, has started a program where inmates in a nearby high-security prison...

  by Siobhan O'Connor