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Tag: Incarceration

All longform pieces tagged with #incarceration on The Slow Scroll

Jailed, Failed, Forgotten
London Review of Books13 Feb 2025 • ~7350 words

Dani Garavelli writes about the systemic failures within the Scottish prison system through the stories of William Lindsay and Katie Allan, two young prisoners lost to suicide while incarcerated.

The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’s Death Row
The New Yorker10 Feb 2025 • ~22000 words

Sisters from a convent outside Waco are visiting women on death row in Texas to offer spiritual support. This piece from Lawrence Wright explores the profound connections that develop between the sisters and the inmates, and how visits filled with compassion and understanding con...

What Happened When America Emptied Its Youth Prisons
New York Times28 Jan 2025 • ~6200 words

Lessons from a radical 20-year experiment and a quiet triumph of public policy.