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How Knitting Behind Bars Transformed Maryland Convicts
The male prisoners of the Pre-Release Unit in Jessup, Maryland knit hats and dolls for children in need.
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Transparency: America's Absurdly High Incarceration Rate
The United States is often touted as the Land of the Free. However, its overcrowded prisons and jails paint a very different picture.
Culture
What's the Present-Day Equivalent of Slavery? (UPDATED)
People used to keep slaves and hang homosexuals and beat their spouses. And it was socially accepted. Are we doing anything now that's just as bad?
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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.
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Social Security's 72,000 Checks to Dead People—Fact Checked
Why the big news about the Social Security checks sent to the dead and imprisoned isn't really big news at all.
Culture
Blood and Gores: Louisiana's Brutal Prison Rodeo Is Back
Louisiana's annual prisoner vs. bull event is back, and just as violent as ever.
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Weighing the Death Penalty vs. Life Without Parole
What's worse—Death? Life in prison? Life after prison?
Lifestyle
Transparency: Which Inmates Get Abused in Prison
The Department of Justice recently finished an extensive audit of U.S. prisons to determine which prisoners were at risk of being sexually abused.n
Lifestyle
Food for Thinkers: WANTED! Prison Food Writers
Bryan Finoki pursues his interest in the politics of space into the prison dining room—and all the way along the inmates' digestive tracts.
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What Should Be the Role of the Prison System?
Education
What Should Be the Role of the Prison System? The Community Answers
Education
Defunding Americorps: Do We Really Want to Take City Year Away From Schools?
The Republican leadership claims the dropout prevention program is wasteful spending. Have they ever spent time with City Year corps members?
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Hard Time
GOOD and Open represent the 1,125 long years innocent people have spent on death row.
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....
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South Carolina Gets Smart(er) About Prison Sentences
Our "corrections system," as it is euphemistically called, trails only health care and education in its cost to the public. With the economy in...
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Samy Gets Arrested
Last week, Samy was arrested by the Thai police. A few days before, he had left the refugee camp to make a rare clandestine trip to the city of...
Design
Q&A: Building A Food Revolution Behind Bars
San Francisco is famous for local, organic, sustainable food, but for all its influence and success, numerous food-related problems still plague...
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"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...
