Prisons are most commonly used to jail criminals, but they have also been used to lock away political dissidents, the mentally ill, prisoners of war and even people who couldn't pay their debts. Photo courtesy U.S. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division As an abstract term,...
How can photography be used to rehabilitate in prisons? A new book, The San Quentin Project, addresses this. It features a largely unseen archive of daily life inside one of America’s oldest and largest prisons. Here, we chat to the book’s author Nigel Poor about why the archive proved...
With Prisons overflowing with criminals‚ alternative forms of punishment have become the top choice when dealing with violent adult offenders. The number of individuals on probation has become two times the amount of the prison population. Putting more of these people on probation ...