Mother Jones July/August Special and After Prison: A Special Issue on Incarcerated America

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SLAMMED
Inside America's broken—and broke—prison system

Welcome to the Age of Incarceration
We are locking up 1 in every 100 American adults—and going bankrupt in the process.
By Jennifer Gonnerman

Worst of the Worst
California's convict crisis
By James Sterngold

Taming of the Screws
A guard's change of heart
By Sasha Abramsky

Texas Hold 'Em
The booming immigrant detention industry
By Stephanie Mencimer

Probation for Profit
In Georgia's outsourced justice system, a traffic ticket can land you deep in the hole.
By Celia Perry

Hard Time Out
Kids doing time for tantrums
By David Goodman

The Shawnee Redemption
Prison problems? Not in Kansas anymore.
By Justine Sharrock


Much thanks to Real Cost of Prisons for pointing out this series of articles in the Boston Review

Reentry

Reversing mass imprisonment
Bruce Western

"To be young, black, and unschooled today is to risk a felony conviction, prison time, and a life of second-class citizenship. In this sense, the prison boom has produced mass incarceration—a level of imprisonment so vast and concentrated that it forges the collective experience of an entire social group."

Guarded Hope

Learning from the prison boom
Robert Perkinson

"If racially skewed prison warehousing represents the latest incarnation of American racism, then political mobilization and social transformation on the scale of the civil rights movement may be necessary to dislodge it."

No Further Harm

What we owe to incarcerated fathers
Mary F. Katzenstein and Mary L. Shanley

"The recognition and encouragement of fatherhood behind bars is a vital step in maintaining and fostering the interrelated—indeed, inseparable—commitments of both intimate and civic life."
The Boston Review