Why do we lock up so many people?Six million people are under correctional supervision in the U.S.—more than were in Stalin’s gulags. Photograph by Steve Liss. by Adam Gopnik - January 30, 2012A prison is a trap for catching time. Good reporting appears often about the inner life of the Americ...
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Social Issues in Prison Steven Limbaugh, Yahoo! Contributor Network Jul 30, 2010 Sexual relations between inmates have been an ongoing occurrence long before the terminology prison and correctional facility ever existed. The majority of prisons throughout the United States completely ignore t...
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MAY 31, 2009 Thanks to a little-known policy at the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), the guy sitting next to you on the bus could be a convicted felon. As part of a cost-cutting program, the BOP allows more than 25,000 prisoners each year to ride unescorted and unannounced between federal correc...
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February 14, 2012 IF YOU start feeling good about America, run don't walk to Adam Gopnik's damning New Yorker feature on the land of the free's penchant for imprisonment: For a great many poor people in America, particularly poor black men, prison is a destination that braids through an ordinar...
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by Ed Grabianowski Prisons are most commonly used to jail criminals, but they have also been used to lock away political dissidents, the mentally ill, prisoners of war and even people who couldn't pay their debts. As an abstract term, prison is quite simple: it's a place where your freedo...
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'Prison Lingo: The Language of the Prison Community' is the result of a collaboration between the English Project and HMP Winchester in October 2010. That year the theme of the English Language Festival was the Language of Place and Community, and prisoners were invited to listen to a talk about ...
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An Informal Guide Jennifer Waite, Yahoo! Contributor March 12, 2009 If you've ever sat through an episode of Dateline where suspects are being interrogated, you have undoubtedly noticed some who are obviously not strangers to the system just judging by the way they speak. Perhaps when you w...
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Banged up - locked in a cell. Baron - prisoner who controls illicit articles through bullying and other exploitative practices of the prisoners. Beef - Criminal charges, i.e. "I caught a burglary beef this time around." Is also used to mean problem, e.g. "I have a ...
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From "Buck Rogers time" (a sentence with a far-future parole date) to "the monster" (HIV) —By Jen Quraishi - July/August 2008 Issue SOME PRISON SLANG: bo-bos: prison-issued tennis shoes bone yard: trailers used for conjugal visits brake fluid: psychiatric meds such as...