When jail healthcare is outsourced to for-profit medical providers, inmates pay the price.

Food. Phone calls. Medical care. Transport. Even in public prisons, “piecemeal privatization” is transforming incarceration in America.

Can a violent adult jail teach kids to love school? A rare look inside one of the only high schools at an adult jail

How a cabbie came to assist a jail break.

Rolf Kaestel stole $264 in 1981. He’s still in jail.

From PANK's Queer issue: a troubled life is explored alongside the life of Nikola Tesla.

"After leaving Edison, Tesla built the first alternating current induction motor in his own laboratory. He decided that at least if no one else believed in him, then he would believe in himself. When George Westinghouse bought his patent, Tesla finally understood that the American dream wasn’t about ideology—just about money. Westinghouse understood that type of power—that owning Tesla’s patent would make him very rich. Tesla didn’t mind Westinghouse becoming richer as long as Tesla had the funds to keep building the myriad of machines still churning in his brain."

An investigation into how Rikers Island guards treat the roughly 4,000 inmates who are mentally ill.