prisons

What is Maria Butina doing now in Russia after her release from a US prison?

Global Politics

After being deported from the United States, Maria Butina is now a member of parliament in Russia’s Duma. She’s become a public persona, often appearing on Russian state TV, and has been active on social media, advertising multiple initiatives, including encouraging foreigners to move to Russia.

Two men hug in room with many people around them

An immigrant detainee is sent over 1,000 miles away from his family and lawyer — and fights to return

Justice
A view of hands on the window of a prison cell door

Poor health care in immigrant detention centers may get worse under Trump

Global Politics

Female inmate population skyrockets in the US

Justice
Inmates wait before they are released from Thanh Xuan prison outside Hanoi on Aug. 29, 2010.

Here’s one way to escape death row in Vietnam: Get pregnant

Justice
Jukka Tiihonen served the last few years of his sentence for murder at this open prison on Suomenlinna Island. The yellow fence, with a sign saying, "Labor Colony" in Finnish, Swedish, English, and Russian, separates the prison from a neighborhood.

In Finland’s ‘open prisons,’ inmates have the keys

Justice

How did Finland moved having the highest incarceration rate in Europe to having one of its lowest? Part of the answer lies in its open prisons, where prisoners — even those convicted of crimes like rape and murder — can be gradually eased back into normal life.