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Topic: Prison Reform

A Florida prison corridor is lined with jail cells (Getty Images)

Florida's cruel and unusual punishment

Tanya Rey
Kim Kardashian at the Fourth Annual Academy Museum Gala held at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on October 19, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Gilbert Flores/WWD via Getty Images)

Kim K advocates for jailed firefighters

Nardos Haile
Wedding in prison (Getty Images/Salon)

My wedding day, inside a prison

Keeonna Harris
(Getty/Luke_Franzen)

Why are private prisons controversial?

John M. Eason - The Conversation
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Donald Trump, John Legend, and Chrissy Teigen (Photo illustration by Salon/NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images/ Dimitrios Kambouris)

Trump attacks "filthy mouthed" Teigen

Ashlie D. Stevens
Emily Tarver (left), Vicci Martinez (middle), and Dania Darwish, northeast regional coordinator for Freedom for Immigrants (right). (Courtesy of Freedom for Immigrants)

"OITNB" stars on visiting an ICE jail

Vicci Martinez, Emily Tarver
(Getty/Spencer Platt)

Rikers Island, a stain on New York

Peter Kaldheim
D Watkins and Alice Marie Johnson (Salon Talks)

Alice Marie Johnson won't stop fighting

D. Watkins
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Jeffrey Wright. Photography by Jill Greenberg, jillgreenberg.com. Find out more about Jill's initiative Alreadymade., a mission to hire more female photographers and content creators at alreadymade.org.

How HBO made "O.G." from the inside

Melanie McFarland
(Matt Smith/Salon Talks)

In prison, he wrote his plan for success

D. Watkins
Inmates work on staining cabinet doors at the Habitat for Humanity Prison Build at the Ionia Correctional Facility in Ionia, Mich. (AP/Carlos Osorio)

An inmate's guide to earning $0.24/hour

Michael Fischer
President Donald Trump speaks about H. R. 5682, the "First Step Act" in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018, which would reform America's prison system. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Reform bill stalls despite Trump support

Rachel Leah
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Donald Trump; Kanye West (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta/Evan Agostini)

Kanye's rant leaves Trump speechless

Matthew Rozsa
Inmates work on staining cabinet doors at the Habitat for Humanity Prison Build at the Ionia Correctional Facility in Ionia, Mich. (AP/Carlos Osorio)

Inmate's guide to earning 24 cents/hour

Michael Fischer
Monroe Laws and Antoine Money mix ingredients to make a nutraloaf, a meal typically given to inmates for misbehavior involving food or bodily waste, before cooking it in a kitchen at James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna, Del. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

Privatized prison food: Just say no

Tom Perkins - Civil Eats
(Getty/hermosawave)

Voting rights and felony convictions

Kimberly R. Kras - The Conversation
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(Reuters/Fred Thornhill)

Real hope for prison reform?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Kim Kardashian; Donald Trump (AP/Evan Agostini/Evan Vucci)

Trump's celebrity commutation a BLM win?

Rachel Leah
New York Post's cover on May 31, 2018. (New York Post/Getty)

Kim K gets slimed by sexist critiques

Rachel Leah
Kim Kardashian; Donald Trump (Getty/Photo montage by Salon)

The only Trump-Kim summit happening

Rachel Leah
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"Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York" by Stacy Horn (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)

A history of asylum horrors, on repeat

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Don Blankenship pauses as he testifies during a hearing, May 20, 2010. (Getty/Alex Wong)

Don Blankenship: Injustice in action

Amanda Marcotte
(Getty/Shutterstock/Salon)

Men need to talk about periods — now

JoAnne Sweeny
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Getty/Win McNamee)

Trump smothers prison reform

Amanda Marcotte
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