“These People Need to Know What We Have Gone Through”
To reduce recidivism, a program brings criminals face to face with their victims. The results aren’t always what you’d expect.
To reduce recidivism, a program brings criminals face to face with their victims. The results aren’t always what you’d expect.
Mark Obbie Slate Jul 2015 55min Permalink
Working on the high seas is always dangerous, but the Dona Liberta has a particularly bad reputation.
Ian Urbina New York Times Jul 2015 Permalink
Life on the outside is full of unpleasant surprises for longtime inmates.
Jon Mooallem New York Times Magazine Jul 2015 25min Permalink
After a lab linked to him was raided, James Jeffrey Bradstreet’s body was found with a bullet wound to the chest. His death was ruled a suicide, but other theories abound.
Michael E. Miller Washington Post Jul 2015 15min Permalink
Alberto Nisman accused Iran and Argentina of colluding to bury a terrorist attack. Did it get him killed?
Dexter Filkins New Yorker Jul 2015 40min Permalink
Oskar Groening, an SS officer whose duties included counting confiscated money, describes his time posted to Auschwitz.
Editor’s note: At age 94, Groening was convicted yesterday of 300,000 counts of accessory to murder and sentenced to four years in prison.
Laurence Rees Politico Jul 2015 25min Permalink
How the world’s most notorious drug lord was captured.
Previously: Patrick Radden Keefe on the Longform Podcast.
Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker May 2014 40min Permalink
To date, more than 500 people have been killed by police in America. This is the story of one, Charly Keunang.
Jeff Sharlet GQ Jul 2015 35min Permalink
The case of Richard Glossip, whose failed Supreme Court challenge of execution methods now leaves him waiting for death. But he still insists he’s innocent.
Liliana Segura, Jordan Smith The Intercept Jul 2015 25min Permalink
The Runaways, their manager Kim Fowley, and the rape of the band’s bassist, long kept a secret.
Jason Cherkis Huffington Post Highline Jul 2015 35min Permalink
What it’s like to be a first responder amid the rise of synthetic marijuana.
Steve Featherstone New York Times Magazine Jul 2015 15min Permalink
Two successful tech geeks slip into organized crime.
Jordan Robertson, Michael Riley Bloomberg Businessweek Jul 2015 20min Permalink
His health failing and his business in tatters, the head of Death Row Records faces murder charges that could put him away for life.
Previously: Does a Sugar Bear Bite? (Lynn Hirschberg • New York Times Magazine • Jan 1996)
Matt Diehl Rolling Stone Jul 2015 20min Permalink
A fugitive spends six years on the Appalachian trail.
William Browning SB Nation Jun 2015 35min Permalink
She was the daughter of movie mogul Harry Warner. He was 15 years younger and embezzled her money, landing himself in jail. In prison, he offered a young inmate named Richard Matt $100,000 to kill her.
Greg Krikorian L.A. Times Jan 1992 Permalink
Voices from the inside of New York City’s infamous jail.
The Marshall Project Jun 2015 50min Permalink
The death of an infant lands his father on death row in Louisiana.
Rachel Aviv New Yorker Jun 2015 25min Permalink
Juries trust DNA. But should they?
Katie Worth Frontline Jun 2015 30min Permalink
The life of Reverend Clementa Pinckney, killed in Charleston.
Joel Anderson Buzzfeed Jun 2015 10min Permalink
Business Crime Tech World Movies & TV
What really happened at Sony Pictures during the cyberattack – and questions about whether the company should have seen it coming.
Peter Elkind Fortune Jun 2015 55min Permalink
An isolated 23-year-old Sunday school teacher living with her grandparents makes a new group of friends online who mail her chocolates and cash.
Rukmini Callimachi New York Times Jun 2015 Permalink
The truncated, violent lives of Richard Matt and David Sweat before their prison escape.
N.R. Kleinfield New York Times Jun 2015 10min Permalink
A murder case in Mississippi catches the eye of amateur sleuths on Facebook, who proceed to harass everyone involved in the case.
Katie J.M. Baker Buzzfeed Jun 2015 30min Permalink
Feeling abandoned by America, families fight to save their children from ISIS.
Lawrence Wright New Yorker Jul 2015 1h25min Permalink
The dilemma of the prison nursery.
Sarah Yager The Atlantic Jun 2015 25min Permalink