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John Grisham is wrong – those who watch child abuse images cause harm

16 Oct 2014: Suzanne Ost: The thriller writer’s claims about the severity of sentencing in the US are simplistic, damaging and inappropriate
Solitary confinement is cruel and all too usual. Why is it only getting worse?

13 Oct 2014: Tessa Murphy: Depriving prisoners of space, light and human contact isn’t rehabilitation – it’s a gross violation of human rights
Scalia says beards aren't a big enough deal for the supreme court. So why do we regulate them at all?

7 Oct 2014: Ruthann Robson: The government’s determination to control personal grooming has implications beyond one prisoner’s religious rights
Ghost town detainees: inside the US immigration detention system

16 Sep 2014: Antony Loewenstein: Long read: After a detention centre was built in one of Georgia’s poorest towns, the promised financial benefits never arrived. Instead thousands of immigrants are locked up, awaiting deportation
Ghost town detainees: photo gallery

16 Sep 2014: Antony Loewenstein: After a detention centre was built in one of Georgia’s poorest towns, the promised financial benefits never arrived. Instead thousands of immigrants are locked up, awaiting deportation
The war on drugs claimed my father. It didn't get me, but I'm the exception

15 Sep 2014: Victoria Bond: The incarceration of black men has had far-reaching effects on their children. Maybe that’s why my family kept it a secret from me
A Muslim inmate's beard isn't a security risk. It's his constitutional right

3 Sep 2014: Dawud Walid: The idea that any contraband could be hidden in a short beard is laughable. But trampling a man’s religious freedom isn’t funny
John Lennon's killer calls himself 'an idiot' at parole board meeting

28 Aug 2014: Mark Chapman tells panel he chose 'the wrong way for glory' in transcript of his latest failed bid for freedom
From the archive, 27 August 1977: President Carter backs testing of drugs on prisoners

27 Aug 2014:
Originally published in the Guardian on 27 August 1977: The US pharmaceutical industry tries out 85 per cent of its new drugs on prison inmates
Teenagers in US prisons: it's time for the savagery and neglect to finally end

7 Aug 2014: Sadhbh Walshe: A terrifying new report might just leave one of the country’s most notoriously bad jails at the forefront of reform for a broken system
Beyond bars: US prisoners on the view they'd most like to see from their cells – in pictures

5 Aug 2014: Windows from Prison asks inmates in Washington DC what scene from their past they would most like their cell to look out on, then photographs them. Here, the prisoners explain the significance of their choices
Inmates injured as roof collapses at Texas prison

19 Jul 2014: Prison officials trying to determine cause of collapse as 10 prisoners are taken to hospital with minor injuries
US district judge who oversaw prison sex materials case dies aged 91

7 Jul 2014: James Turk struck down policy that barred prisoners from reading classical works of literature with explicit sexual passages
Former Illinois governor 'regrets' allowing state's last execution

2 Jul 2014: Free from prison after sentence for corruption trial ends, George Ryan gives interview and says 'I regretted killing that Greek fella'
Ed Miliband's not at all 'weird'

30 Jun 2014: The weird ones are the creatures in ivory towers who neither notice nor care about the NHS, the prisons, the living wage and the bloodsucker corporations who have us in their thrall