What does environmental justice look like in a landscape overrun by prisons? Where the incarcerated suffer from unusually polluted surroundings, and prisons are a toxin in their own right?
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Following the North Star
Shaheen Pasha explores how the trauma of a loved one’s incarceration unravels her carefully planned-out existence, and sets her on a new, unexpected path to find meaning in the meaningless.
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Longreads Best of 2020: Essays
A small sampling of standout essays published this year.
Posted inCrime, Highlight, Quotes
The PTSD of Everyday Life
The mental and physical toll of life in a white supremacist state is unavoidable for BIPOC, even if it manifests differently for different people.
Posted inNonfiction
In Sickness, In Health — and In Prison
Most people know prisoners can marry. Few remember the co-ed prison, the impromptu courthouse wedding and the Supreme Court ruling that allows them to do so.
Posted inNonfiction
Debt Demands a Body
“The future that debt chose for me — indeed the future it chooses for many people — included a lot of shame, confusion, and pain.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
These Sheriffs Release Sick Inmates to Avoid Paying Their Hospital Bills
It’s not only cruel, it draws into question what incarceration is for.
Posted inNonfiction
Longreads Best of 2020: Crime Reporting
Our top picks in Crime Reporting for 2020.
Posted inReading List
This Week In Books: I Bought Some Books
Am I ghoul for buying all these plague books?
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Longreads Best of 2020: Investigative Reporting
Our top picks for investigative journalism this year.
