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Mass Incarceration

The Strongman and the Cellblock: El Salvador Under Bukele

Kushan MaheshDecember 1, 2025January 12, 2026

All credit to Carlos Barrera, photojournalist from El Faro In a small town in central El Salvador, thirty minutes from the capital, a young deportee says he can finally leave his motorcycle outside without fear—something unthinkable just a few years…

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The Anniversary of Attica: Prison Strikes, Penal Labor, and the New Jim Crow

Chloe KimballOctober 1, 2016October 1, 2016

Chloe Kimball explains the insidious media silence on the largest prison strike in American history.

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