A few years ago, while touring a Norwegian prison, I witnessed a tragic example of what happens when people ignore…
When Raymond McCarty appeared in court this month, the judge came up with an unusual sentence—one that just might frighten…
Six years ago Mario Murphy picked up a steel pipe and smashed it over the head of a man he’d…
It was the kind of “welcome” that Texas will probably not feature in its next tourism campaign. A riot squad burst into…
Howard Waller sat nervously in the visiting room at Limon Correctional Facility, a high- security prison in Colorado. He was…
A 15-year-old boy—we’ll call him James—broke into a house in Washington, D.C. While James was searching one room, one of…
When I visited a major U.S. penitentiary recently, I was surprised to find the auditorium half empty. It was a…
You’d think that any belt worth seven hundred dollars would be studded with diamonds or at least have a solid…
At Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, soldiers used to talk about playing “the game.” It was a euphemism for a…
It’s the crack of dawn, and 30 young men are marching in formation. Striding alongside them is Sergeant Roger Redd,…
