How a convicted sexual predator emptied the bank accounts and ruined the lives of several women from behind bars.

The story of Trina Garnett, “one of approximately 470 prisoners in Pennsylvania serving life without parole for crimes they committed as teenagers.”

George Wright spent more time on the lam, 41 years, than any fugitive in American history. Last fall, after being caught in a rural Portuguese village, he told his story.

On L.A.’s Homeboy Industries, which offers former felons—including at least one disgraced CEO—the chance to work.

There was torture, starvation, betrayals and executions, but to Shin In Geun, Camp 14—a prison for the political enemies of North Korea—was home. Then one day came the chance to flee.

Virginia authorities possess DNA evidence that may exonerate dozens of  convicted men. Why won’t the state say who they are?

On solitary confinement:

“Two or three hundred years from now people will look back on this lockdown mania like we look back on the burning of witches.”

In an odd way, crime has fallen off the political landscape. To an extent it’s been replaced on the agenda by concern about the dire consequences of mass incarceration. But violent crime itself remains a major area in which the United States lags behind other developed countries. To suggest that smarter management of the criminal justice system could make it less brutal while simultaneously creating large reductions in the quantity of crime sounds utopian. And yet the proposals for parole system reform found in this article are utterly convincing.

-M. Yglesias

On prisoners with Alzheimer’s disease and their incarcerated caretakers.

In court and visiting prison with the parents of young Russian Nationalists who’ve killed.

An unexplainable murder, double jeopardy, and military courts: the strange case of Tim Hennis.

Pavel Galitsky, 100 years old, blogger and Skyper, survivor of 15 years in Stalin’s Siberian Kolyma mines.