Record-high ratio of Americans in prison

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By DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer 27 minutes ago

For the first time in history, more than one in every 100 American adults is in jail or prison, according to a new report tracking the surge in inmate population and urging states to rein in ( Read more... )

Here's the situation... long story short, I have a cousin who is serving a lengthy prison sentence in California. He and I are considering writing an article, which hopefully we can get published, on life inside the general population in a maximum security prison. Basically, he'd be doing the fieldwork and I'd be handling the theory. We'd be co- ( Read more... )

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In the first of a series about prisons in Latin America, BBC Mundo's Mery Vaca reports on the hundreds of Bolivian children for whom home is a prison cell ( Read more... )