The events leading up to the botched execution of Clayton Lockett.

Harsh sentences have given us an aging prison population, and all the medical problems that come with age are beginning to choke the system.

In 1965, Wheat was sentenced to death for armed robbery and murder. When his sentence was commuted, he decided to devote the rest of his life to helping people.

After robbing two video stores with a friend, Rene Lima-Marin was sentenced to almost 100 years in prison. Then, due to a clerical error, he was released 88 years too early.

The strange situation of Huntsville, Texas.

Being exonerated for a crime you didn’t commit is a hard-won triumph. But how can the state make up for what you’ve lost while in prison?

The events that led the writer to spend 60 days in jail.

The Scandinavians had an idea that seems wacky to Americans: make a prison safe and livable.

After DNA test cleared Clarence Harrison of a crime he didn’t commit, he was released from prison and awarded $1 million. But the redemption story he tells publicly hides a more complicated reality.

The most coveted items on the prison menu are salt and pepper packets.

One man’s story.

A false confession to bad cops put a man in prison for rape and murder. But even conclusive DNA evidence hasn’t gotten him out.

Brutality persists at the famous prison.

A teenaged prisoner is left unprotected by America’s laws against prison rape.

The shame of family detention camps on the U.S. border.

On the psychological damage punitive isolation inflicts upon Guantánamo and American prisoners alike.

The story of Tyrone Hood, who served 21 years for a murder he didn’t commit, and the Chicago criminal justice apparatus that allowed a serial killer to go free.

How Facebook ‘likes’ landed Jelani Henry in Rikers.

How solitary confinement can lead to suicide.

Spending time with the residents of K6G, the only gay wing in the entire American penal system.

How bad lawyering and an unforgiving law cost condemned men their last appeal.

Alfred Dellentash Jr. chartered the Rolling Stones in private jets while smuggling planeloads of Pablo Escobar’s drugs on the side.

An American journalist on being kidnapped, tortured and released in Syria.

A prison cook reflects on her daughter as she prepares a prisoner's last meal.

"See what I mean? Fussiness knows no bounds. Not even for inmates. We don’t serve shit-on-a-shingle, but sometimes you’d never believe it. Last week Brenda and me whipped up fifteen pans of German chocolate cake and don’t you know some idiot come up to Brenda complaining about the “presentation,” said his mama always made German chocolate cake in two layers, not in a sheet pan. Everybody’s a critic."