The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Weekly Top 5 This week, we’re sharing stories from Nick Roberts and Rosa Amanda Tuirán, Carroll Bogert and Lynnell Hancock, Kiese Makeba Laymon, Alicia Kennedy, and Kitty Kelley.
She Said Her Husband Hit Her. She Lost Custody of Their Kids By Kathryn Joyce Feature How reporting domestic violence works against women in family court.
In Sickness, In Health — and In Prison By Mia Armstrong Feature 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.
You’re On Death Row, You’ve Asked to Die, But the State Won’t Kill You By Krista Stevens Highlight Despite their hard-stance bluster, death penalty states rarely impose the ultimate sentence, even if you’re the prisoner and you ask them to.
Harvard’s About-Face on Michelle Jones’s Acceptance By Sari Botton Commentary The ex-convict, who became a history scholar behind bars, prepares to start classes at NYU instead.
Revisiting the Ghosts of Attica By Tom Robbins Feature A wrenching new book recounts the bloodiest prison battle in our history.
The Day My Brother Took a Life and Changed Mine Forever By Longreads Feature I grew up idolizing my brother. Then he killed a man.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Reading List The best stories of the week, as chosen by the editors of Longreads.
Poor Excuse for Justice: A Rape Recanted, a Victim Re-victimized By Michelle Weber Highlight A description of a horrific attack by a serial rapist — whose victim the police refused to believe — from an in-depth investigative report by T. Christian Millar and Ken Marshall on ProPublica.
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week By Longreads Reading List Our favorite stories of the week, featuring, The Dallas Observer, The Marshall Project, GQ, Dissent, and SB Nation.
