Prisons damage people and have always been used by the powerful to control the most marginalized. But when some criminals undoubtedly pose great danger to others, can society really do away with incarceration altogether? Kelsey Mohamed and Andrew Neilson go head to head.
A community group is campaigning to turn the London borough of Haringey into a safer place for migrants. Charlotte England reports.
The West finds much to celebrate about the country, but it has the largest prison population in the Middle East and world’s highest per-capita use of teargas. Zoe Holman reports on the state of Bahrain.
Around 2.3 million US citizens are behind bars - a number that dwarfs any other country, reports Mark Engler.
Rowenna Davis meets a guard and an inmate from the notorious US prison camp in Cuba.
It’s difficult to know for sure how many political prisoners there currently are in China, but it’s safe to say that there are thousands of them.
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Should prisons be abolished? | How we make poverty | March, 2020 |
Seriously? | How to avoid climate breakdown | May, 2019 |
Sanctuary boroughs | Public ownership rises again | May, 2018 |
Country Profile: Bahrain | Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent | December, 2017 |
America: Life in Prison Nation | Nature's defenders | October, 2011 |
Guantánamo: Both Sides of the Wire | Mothers who die | March, 2009 |
Inside China’s prisons | Viva Yasuní! Life vs Big Oil | July, 2008 |