Sep 21 Watch American Hikers Free After 2 Years in Iranian Prison Americans Shane Bauer and Joshua Fattal were reunited with their families Wednesday in Oman after spending more than two years in Iranian prison. The men were convicted of spying and sentenced to eight years in prison, but were freed on… Continue watching
Sep 20 Watch Troy Davis Case in Georgia Rekindles Debate Over Death Penalty A parole board in Georgia has rejected clemency for inmate Troy Davis, who is slated to be executed Wednesday. Uproar over the case has revived questions about how the death penalty is applied. Gwen Ifill talks to The Heritage Foundation's… Continue watching
Aug 15 Watch In Defense of Flogging: Controversy Over Prisons and Punishment Peter Moskos argues flogging as an alternative to sending people to prison. Continue watching
Aug 08 How to Not Let Mistakes Define You EmbedVideo(1190, 514, 320); We recently reported on the prison initiative of Bard College, a selective school currently running degree programs in five New York prisons. Skeptics of prison reform should take note of one Anthony Cardenales,… Continue reading
Aug 08 Watch How Not To Let Mistakes Define You Former inmate Anthony Cardenales talks to Bard college students about being successful. Continue watching
Jul 27 Watch How to Succeed in Business by Really, Really Trying Is the aptitude for business (the legal kind) distributed among convicted criminals as it is in the general population? One seasoned executive thinks so, and believes that by hiring the cream of the ex-con crop, his company will have a… Continue watching
Jul 26 Watch From Ball and Chain to Cap and Gown: Getting a B.A. Behind Bars What college is tougher to get into than Harvard, Princeton or Yale? Bard College. Not the campus in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., but the one behind bars in five Empire State prisons. The privately funded Bard Prison Initiative is putting convicts through… Continue watching
Jul 20 Is Flogging a Better Option Than Prison? German soldiers flog a Russian villager while fellow villagers are forced to watch. This photograph was found on a dead German soldier. Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images. A new book by Peter Moskos is as provocative in name as… Continue reading
Jul 13 Watch Calif. Corrections Chief Matthew Cate on Supreme Court Prison Overcrowding Order Interview: Matthew Cate, secretary of Calif. Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Continue watching
Jun 30 Artist Ai Weiwei’s Clashes with the Chinese Government By Molly Finnegan Outspoken Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was arrested in early April and held for nearly three months. Accused of tax evasion, he was released on June 22 and ordered to pay nearly $2 million. Here are images of the artist detailing… Continue reading