Ninety minutes in Oakland
In 2016, inside a juvenile facility in Oakland, a fifteen-year-old sat in a circle with the woman whose purse he snatched outside a BART station. He had run. She had fallen. Her wrist broke. The facilitator did not speak for eleven minutes....
The question nobody answers
On September 11, 2007, Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters were murdered in their home in Cheshire, Connecticut. Both men had been released on parole. One had been arrested over twenty times. The system told Dr....
The seminary on the tier
Warden Burl Cain arrived at Angola — 18,000 acres of former plantation land, the highest inmate-on-inmate violence rate in the country — in 1995. By 2005, violent incidents had dropped seventy-three percent. He did not hire more guards....
Twenty-eight years for a painting
In 2021, Ndume Olatushani walked out of a Tennessee prison after twenty-eight years on death row for a murder he did not commit. He entered at thirty. He left at fifty-eight....