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Our relationships between food and death. A history of the last meal: “In America, where the death rows—like the prisons generally—are largely filled with men from the lower rungs of the socio-economic ladder, last-meal requests are dominated by the country’s mass-market comfort foods: fries, soda, fried chicken, pie. Sprinkled in this mix is a lot […]

Today we’re excited to make another recent Longreads Member Pick free for everyone. It’s a full chapter from Among Murderers: Life After Prison, by Sabine Heinlein. Heinlein is a Pushcart Prize-winning writer who spent more than two years at the Castle, a prominent halfway house in Harlem, where she met convicts who were preparing for the outside world. (She’ll be […]

Choral director Catherine Roma is going into prisons to help inmates find their voice: “This choir isn’t her first in a prison. She started the UMOJA Men’s Chorus (Swahili for unity) two decades ago at the Warren County Correctional Institution near Lebanon as part of a Wilmington College educational program. Under Roma’s leadership, that group […]

What happens to children who enter the U.S. illegally and alone after they’re caught by the Border Patrol: “If you’re caught, say you’re an adult so they don’t send you back. “Say you’re a kid so they don’t send you back. If you say you’re a kid, they won’t take you to prison. “Practice your […]

An examination of prison policies and rehabilitation programs for criminal offenders that help keep them out of prison and help them transition back into society: “‘So many pieces have to come together’ to set newly released prisoners on the path to a productive, stable life, says Caroline Burke ’13, a social studies concentrator who is […]