prison-reform

The Feminist on Cell Block Y Is Now a Free Man

A conversation with the star of the recent CNN doc about getting laughed out of the room the first time he taught feminism in prison, the idea of ‘weakness’ behind bars and how he felt free long before his prison sentence ended

Life as a Gay Man Behind Bars

“You seem plenty tough, Brian, but you’re not prison tough,” warned Mark, a public defender who represented me when I got a DUI back in…

How ‘The Prison in Twelve Landscapes’ Rethinks Mass Incarceration

The documentary tackles the social, racial and economic repercussions of imprisonment — without ever taking us inside a jail cell