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.
