John, had arrived in London for the trial. He bribed three guards with large sums of money and arranged for the prisoners to be hustled out into the street from a passageway that linked the prison and the courthouse. The plan was foiled after one of the guards, named Smith,...
To do that, prisons will have to devote time and resources to figuring out what factors—such as lack of education or job skills, mental illness or substance abuse—contributed to the fall of each prisoner, and which prisoners are most likely to benefit from rehabilitati...
A fiftysomething man I met in Klaipėda, Lithuania, last week told me his life story. As a teenager, he’d been a Soviet army conscript, ferrying prisoners to Siberia and sleeping in two-hour shifts. In the early 2000s, he worked in a petrol station in Dublin. Now, he and his wi...