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My Prison Experiment
I took a $9-an-hour job as a private prison guard in Louisiana. I saw stabbings, an escape, and prisoners and guards struggling to survive.
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Chapter 4
“You Got to Survive”
Trying to pull through as crisis looms. plus: Why it’s so hard for inmates to sue.
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Why Is It So Hard For Inmates to Sue Prisons?
It started with a salad bar.
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A Brief History of America’s Private Prison Industry
“You just sell it like you were selling cars, or real estate, or hamburgers.”
- EDITOR’S NOTE
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- OUTFRONT
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Make America Hate Again
White nationalists for Trump
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Block the Vote
Blocking the ballot box
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Conventional Warfare
Fisticuffs, fatheads, and other convention madness
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Olympians Without Borders
The amazing story of Rio’s all-refugee Olympic team
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The Little Tax That Could
How to fix Hillary’s Goldman problem
- MIXED MEDIA
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On the Record
DJ Grandmaster Flash waxes nostalgic about early hip-hop.
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White Open Spaces
The Grand Wizard of conservation
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“5 Days of Wasted Time”
Panning our national parks
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- FOOD + HEALTH
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Come Undung
The world’s come undung.
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Fishy Story
Our faux-fish problem
