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Sable Elyse Smith is an artist who explores the theme of imprisonment in her work. While she has not personally been incarcerated, she has spent a significant amount of time visiting her father in California prisons. This experience has influenced her interdisciplinary art, which challenges the concept of mass incarceration and the prison industrial complex. Smith's work has been showcased in prestigious venues such as the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Biennial, and the Venice Biennial. She is regarded as a significant critic of the carceral state. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the prison drama film Sing Sing, directed by Greg Kwedar. The film follows the story of John "Divine G" Whitfield, played by Colman Domingo, who is serving time in Sing Sing prison for a crime he didn't commit. Whitfield becomes involved in a prison theater program and helps to determine who joins the program and what productions are mounted. The film explores themes of growth, change, forgiveness, and redemption, highlighting the value of self-expression and the potential for personal transformation. The story is based on the real-life Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA) program, and features actors who got their start through that initiative. The film emphasizes the importance of continuous personal growth and the potential for change in all individuals, both inside and outside of prison. [Extracted from the article]

The article presents statistics on various aspects of life, primarily in the U.S., in the 21st Century, including information on the cost and composition of the U.S. military, on prisons and incarceration, on life in cities and suburbs, on sex and love, and on shopping habits.

The article discusses capital punishment in the U.S. and how correctional institutions are addressing the shortage in lethal injection drugs. Topics include how most lethal injection drugs such as sodium thiopental are produced in Europe where capital punishment is uncommon, how prison administrations are working with potentially illegal experimental lethal drug combinations, and how these drugs are resulting in longer, more painful executions.

The article discusses posttraumatic stress disorder among U.S. military veterans and former U.S. Marine Sergeant David Linley who was sentenced to 16 years in prison after engaging the police in a firefight on a suburban street in Linley's neighborhood approximately 30 miles southwest of Chicago, Illinois in 2006. According to the article, close to 200,000 U.S. military veterans are incarcerated in American prisons as of February 2014. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is examined.

The article presents a discussion of the American prison system, adapted from the book "Halfway Home," by Reuben Jonathan Miller. It describes the condition of Miller's bother who is a prisoner at the Michigan Department of Corrections, the effect of incarceration on personal relationships, and the policies outside of prison that make life harder for former prisoners and their families.

The article describes the Administrative Maximum U.S. Penitentiary (ADX) in Florence, Colorado, and problems there. The 600-acre complex houses prisoners from business swindlers to terrorist bombers. Problems include prisoner homicides, more restrictions on prisoners, understaffing, community worries about terrorist break-ins, underfunding, and prisoner and staff unrest.

Focuses on the interrogation of Mohammed al-Qahtani, a follower of Osama Bin Laden and believed to be the 20th hijacker, and inmate at Guantánamo Bay. Deportation of al-Qahtani after being detained at the Orlando International Airport in Florida; Log of al-Qahtani's interrogation received by "Time," even though it was never supposed to leave Guantánamo Bay; Excerpts from the log; Claim by the U.S. Dept. of Defense that al-Qahtani has been a valuable source of information; Calls on the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush to close down Guantánamo Bay after many complaints from human-rights groups, Amnesty International and others.

Focuses on the search for an explanation of the prisoner abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq. Highlights of testimony given by Specialist Jeremy Sivits, who is the first to face a court-martial; Contention of the other six soldiers implicated so far that superior officers not only knew but approved of subjecting prisoners to sexual humiliation and physical pain; Questions over the differing accounts of Sivits and Specialist Charles Graner; Argument of Pentagon officials; Questions over a possible failure of leadership and lack of discipline; Conflicting testimony of Major General Antonio Taguba and Stephen Cambone, the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence;Focus on the role of Major General Geoffrey Miller, former commandant of the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, who was assigned to the Iraq prisons; Disagreement over the rules which govern military interrogation. INSET: Who Was in Charge at Abu Ghraib?.

The article discusses the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by United States soldiers. Haider Sabbar Abed al-Abbadi kept his shame to himself until the world saw him stripped naked, his head in a hood, a nude fellow prisoner kneeling before him simulating oral sex. "That is me," he claims to a "Time" reporter, as one of the lurid photographs of detained Iraqis suffering sexual humiliation at the hands of U.S. soldiers scrolls down a computer screen. Nothing could hide the raw cruelty of U.S. soldiers ridiculing the manhood of Iraqi captives. Of all places, these atrocities occurred at Abu Ghraib prison, once the infamous home of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's torture chambers. Most immediately, the scandal has imperiled the U.S. effort to pacify Iraq by turning even more ordinary Iraqis against the occupation and reinforcing the sense that control is slipping everywhere, less than two months before the U.S. is due to hand sovereignty back to the nation. Testifying before the Senate, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said the Pentagon has obtained more photographs and video footage that show U.S. troops engaged in even worse behavior. On March 20, 2004, the military announced that seven soldiers of the 372nd Military Police Company were being held in Iraq and charged with conspiracy, dereliction of duty, assault, maltreatment and indecent acts.

Discusses the release of more than 630,000 people from prison in the United States, focusing particularly on Jean Sanders and his struggle to remain free after being released from prison in New York. How he spends his new freedom, including his search for a job; Way that he is representative of ex-offenders in the throes of re-entry into society; Fear that the release of this many prisoners will boost crime; History of prisons in the U.S.

Describes the battle inside the Qala-i-Jangi prison, a ruined 19th century fortress in Afghanistan. Details of the revolt of Taliban prisoners, which lasted more than three days and led to the deaths of hundreds; Role of the Northern Alliance in mounting an attack against the Taliban.

Argues that America's overcrowded prisons have failed as a deterrent to crime, and speculates that building more of them and imposing longer sentences may only increase the crime rate. Annual cost of $21 billion for construction of prisons and maintenance of inmates; Prison officials releasing career criminals to make room for first-time drug offenders; Effects of impatience for quick-fix remedies; Florida versus Minnesota; Addressing connected problems.

The article provides an account of the hostage and freedom of the 53 American people who were imprisoned in Iran and Jimmy Carter's four years as U.S. President. Under Carter's leadership, the government worked out with Iran the general terms for the release of the hostages on January 16, 1981, but since then there were constant delays. An Foreign Minister Mohammed Benyahia's Algerian team acted as intermediaries. In 1982, two aircrafts carrying the hostages were allowed to take off in Iran.

A photo essay which documents the life inside several maximum-security prisons in the U.S. is presented.

The article offers information on the use and purpose of correctional institutions in the U.S. It states that prisons have been created to become penitentiaries, reformatories and rehabilitation facilities. However, prisons have failed to accomplish a feat that a more modest people will not have counted on. It suggests that prisons have been proven to be uncongenial places for moral improvement.

An obituary for the member of Irish Republican Army, Tom McElwee, is presented.

In this article, some of the Americans who were taken hostage in Tehran, Iran, talk about the trauma that they faced during the course of ordeal. Captives were forced to sleep for weeks in the clothes they were wearing when captured. Captives were underfed and terrified. Some hostages were continually led out for interrogations by guards who tried to get them to divulge secret information. One captive Airman James O. Hughes spent most of his captivity tied to a chair blindfolded.

The article offers information on the hostage crisis faced by the U.S. About 52 U.S. nationals were taken hostage by Iran. But with diplomatic efforts the U.S. government managed to force the release of all 52 hostages. The public mood turned more somber and angry when the released Americans began to tell their families and U.S. officials about the cruelty they had endured during the 14 months ordeal in Iran.

The article offers information on the Iran hostage crisis. It reports the announcement of the Iranian authorities that holiday visit by non-Iranian Christian clergymen would not be permitted this year. Following the fears regarding the lives of the U.S. hostages that the announcement evoked, Tehran permitted a peek into the captives' lives. The article also highlights the efforts of the outgoing President Carter in freeing the victims and the relationship between Iran and the U.S.

The article offers the author's opinion on the prison system in the U.S. He says that prisons have the capability of keeping dangerous people off a society, but, given parole, probation and other practices of the larger justice system, that is not done effectively. According to him, the penal system is hard to be rationalized on practical grounds and even harder to be defended on moral ones. He says that a lot of reform is needed before the penal system can be called even tolerable.

The article offers information related to the political conditions in Iran. It highlights the nonviolent revolution of the people of Iran, to end the tyranny of their Shah, that triggers the leftist to war, causing chaos instead of freedom. It cites several bewildering forces involved in the war including the troops loyal to the Shah, ethnic separatist, mojahedeen (literally crusaders) who backed the new government of Iran Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan and the leftist Marxist feyadeen (sacrificers). It states that with the support from the Palestine Liberation Organization, the leftist was primarily responsible for an outburst of anti-Americanism which attacked the U.S. embassy in Tehran hostaging U.S. Ambassador to Iran William Sullivan.

The article focuses on the connection between Colombia and the U.S. in smuggling marijuana and cocaine. It explains that Colombia is the chief supplier of the marijuana and cocaine in the U.S. where 42 million Americans consume about 130, 000 pounds of narcotics per day. It mentions that a network of farmers and smugglers who are mostly small-time entrepreneurs, extend illegal drug dealings from Bogota, Columbia to New York, Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California. According to the author, smuggling marijuana is the largest business in Colombia where it has created an underground economy which stimulated 20 percent of the country's inflation. The varieties of marijuana, the smuggling techniques used by drug dealers, and the effects of using illegal drugs are also discussed.

The article discusses the implications of the trial of Anatoly Shcharansky on U.S. and Soviet Union relations. It states that Shcharansky was the symbol of deteriorating U.S.-Soviet relations and the personification of the struggle for human rights fought by the Soviet Union's dogged dissidents. It notes that Shcharansky was put on trial for treason in Moscow. He was accused for spying for a foreign intelligence service, the Central Intelligence Agency. On the other hand, U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who denied the charge, was considering of the possibility of exchanging two Russian spies arrested in New Jersey for Shcharansky.

The article focuses on the kidnapping incident involving Aldo Moro, president of the Christian Democrats, and the Red Brigades. It mentions that though Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti has received a letter from Moro pleading for his life, he still rejects the kidnapper's demand to deal for an exchange of imprisoned terrorists. It mentions several possible reasons for the existence of terrorists including unemployment, educational system, and the bureaucracy which tends to isolate citizens from the government. It states that many young people in Italy have turned extremist and joined radical groups like Red Brigades because they feel betrayed by the government. It notes that the most effective way to control terrorism is to cure the undesirable social conditions in the country.

The author reflects on the effort of the Episcopal Church advocates to revitalize the old-time religion in the U.S. He cites the attempt of faith healers, holly rollers and counterfeit preachers to recycle old-time religion with an increased-zeal by pursuing in various prayer meetings, instead of settling for the sudden thrill of religion only on Sundays, Christmas and Easter. He investigates the steady growth of the Bible Belt sector in the country due to the increasing presence of the born-again Southern Baptist in the White House. The author examines the practices and missions of the Evangelicals and argues that their growth have also prompted the development of other different religions in the country.

The article focuses on the blackout in New York City which hit on July 13, 1977 which gives opportunity for minority of poor African Americans and Hispanics to go on rampage setting fire and looted stores. It offers an overview of the blackout in 1965 and presents its differences. It describes the situation in various places around the city such as waiters serving their customers by candlelight, actors performing on stage under the beams of flashlights, heavy traffic and looting. It mentions the lack of electricity has inflicted lot of establishments nationwide. However, it notes that the blackout was smaller than that of 1965, wherein 9 million people lost electricity in the city compared to 25 million people in eight states and two Canadian provinces in 1965.