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The icon for female is behind bars surrounded by a brick wall.

There are more women in prison than ever before

Conflict

Our series takes a global look at the problem: why women are ending up in prison, what it’s like for them inside and how activists are fighting to keep people out.

Angelo Pesce

Convicted scammer creates federal PACs from prison

Global Politics
Kelly Orians facilitates a weekly discussion group for formerly incarcerated entrepreneurs. Until their new space is fully renovated, they meet in the back of an events hall in New Orleans' Gentilly neighborhood.

Getting out of prison it’s hard to find a job. Why not help ex-prisoners start their own businesses?

Justice
Mohamedou Ould Slahi has been imprisoned at Guantánamo since 2002 without charges.

US censors make 2,500 cuts to first-ever published diary by Guantanamo detainee

Books
The recent releases from Guantanamo include former detainee Adel bin Muhammad El Ouerghi of Tunisia shown standing on a balcony in Montevideo, Uruguay, his new home.

Why closing Gitmo remains a daunting task for Obama

Justice
Gael García Bernal plays Iranian reporter Maziar Bahari in "Rosewater."

The journalist profiled in Jon Stewart’s ‘Rosewater’ finds dark humor In Iran’s prisons

Media

In a prison memoir, misery and pain are usually staples. But in “Rosewater,” the story of Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari’s time in Tehran’s Evin Prison, dark humor and the absurd are given equal time.