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A College Education in Prison Opens Unexpected Path to Freedom By Vanessa Rancaño (KQED)
A Day in South America’s “Most Humane” Prison (Vice — a Documentary)
Anders Behring Breivik, Killer in 2011 Norway Rampage, Says Prison Conditions Violate His Rights By Henrik Pryser Libell (The New York Times)
Angola for Life (The Atlantic -- a Short Documentary) 
Bastoy Prison - Norway
Beyond Prisons: YES Magazine Summer 2011
Beyond the age of mass incarceration (The Atlantic)
Brennan Center for Justice
California Sentencing Institute
Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
'Culture of Violence' Pervades Rikers' Juvenile Facilities By Joel Rose (NPR)
Death Penalty Abolition Worldwide, Since 1961
Exoneration Project - at The University of Chicago
Families Against Mandatory Minimums
From A Life Term To Life On The Outside: When Aging Felons Are Freed By Robert Siegel and Matt Ozug (NPR)
Here's Where Gun Laws Stand In Your State By Danielle Kurtzleben (NPR)
How Gangs Took Over Prisons By Graeme Wood (The Atlantic)
Infographic: U.S. Incarceration Rates By Theresa Riley
Innocence Project of Texas
International Centre for Prison Studies
Louisiana Incarcerated (The Times-Picayune)
Martin Clancy and Tim O’Brien on the Death Penalty’s Fatal Flaws - From Moyers and Company
Mass incarceration in America, explained in 22 maps and charts By German Lopez (Vox)
Mass Incarceration in the US (YouTube)
Mexican Drug Cartels Recruiting Young Men, Boys (NPR)
My Life After 44 Years in Prison (Al Jazeera)
New Legislation Reconsiders Juvenile Sentencing and Placement By Steven Cuevas (The California Report)
Officer's Death Raises Safety Concerns For Alaska's Unarmed Law Enforcement By Martin Kaste (NPR)
One Year of Prison Costs More Than One Year at Princeton
Prison (Stories from Marketplace)
Prison Planet By Jessica Benko (The New York Times)
Prison Policy Initiative
Prison Rate Was Rising Years Before 1994 Law By Erik Eckholm (The New York Times)
Private Prisons - Two Part Program on NPR
Rikers Island Struggles With a Surge in Violence and Mental Illness By Michael Schwirtz (The New York Times)
State by State: Death Penalty Laws By John Light
States of Incarceration: The Global Context (Prison Policy Initiative)
States of Women's Incarceration: The Global Context (Prison Policy Initiative)
The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration By Ta-Nehisi Coates (The Atlantic) 
The Clink Charity
The Counted: People Killed By the Police in the US (The Guardian)
The Deadly Consequences of Solitary with a Cellmate By Christie Thompson and Joe Shapiro (The Marshall Project)
The Drug Laws That Changed How We Punish By Brian Mann (NPR)
The High Costs Of High Security At Supermax Prisons By Jacob McCleland (NPR)
The Innocence Project
The Inside-Out Center
The Many Causes of America’s Decline in Crime By Inimai M. Chettiar (The Atlantic)
The Marshall Project
The National Registry of Exonerations
The Next to Die (The Marshall Project)
The Prison Portraits (The Marshall Project)
The Radical Humaneness of Norway's Halden Prison By Jessica Benko (The New York Times)
The Sentencing Project
The World Justice Project
This Classically Trained Chef Makes Prison Food Taste Less Like Punishment By Lars Roest-Madsen (VICE)
This Country Beats France (An Extra from Sicko DVD)
Thousands of immigrants suffer in solitary confinement in U.S. detention centers By Hannah Rappleye, Andrew W. Lehren, Spencer Woodman, Vanessa Swales and Maryam Saleh (NBC News)
Vera Institute of Justice
Visualizing Punishment By Sarah Shannon and Chris Uggen
We Went to a Fashion Show Inside a Brazilian Prison By Bruno Costa (Vice)
Why For-Profit Prisons House More Inmates Of Color By Rina Palta (NPR)