The Marshall Project
Nonprofit journalism about criminal justice Various authors August 2, 2016… Read More »The Marshall Project
Policing and Law
This theme refers to prison’s multiple roles in contemporary society, including the ways imprisonment structures, and is structured by, other institutions. Users looking for material on the economic and social functions of prison will find it here. We welcome feedback on this organization during our beta period.
Subthemes
Criminalization
Death Penalty
Jail and Bail
Legal Issues
New Jim Crow
Police Procedures
War on Drugs
War on Terror
Will California End the Death Penalty with Prop 62?
Los Angeles Review of Books Radio Hour October 22, 2016… Read More »Will California End the Death Penalty with Prop 62?
Liberty’s Prisoners: Prisons & Prison Life in Early America
Ben Franklin’s World Jen Manion American prisons are overcrowded. The… Read More »Liberty’s Prisoners: Prisons & Prison Life in Early America
The Thin Blue Line
Errol Morris The Thin Blue Line is a 1988 American documentary… Read More »The Thin Blue Line
The Trials of Darryl Hunt
HBO Documentary Films Anne Sundberg Ricki Stern “The Trials of… Read More »The Trials of Darryl Hunt
The New Asylums
FRONTLINE Miri Navasky Karen O’Connor May 10, 2005 Fewer than… Read More »The New Asylums
The House I Live In
Independent Lens (PBS) Eugene Jarecki April 8, 2013 For the… Read More »The House I Live In
