… Our interview with award-winning journalist Shane Bauer about his new book, American Prison, which dives deep into the profit-earning motives of U.S. prisons … Bauer also recounts his own stint as an undercover prison guard at the privately owned Winn Correctional Center in Louisiana, and the four months he was held in solitary confinement in an Iran prison as a political prisoner.
Read MoreAs multiple outlets reported, South Carolina is refusing to evacuate some prisons that lie in mandatory evacuation zones.
Read MoreIn Chicago, protests erupted Saturday after police officers shot and killed a 37-year-old African-American man on the South Side of Chicago. Harith Augustus was a well-known barber and the father of a 5-year-old daughter.
Read MoreMass protests greeted President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin as they met for a summit Monday in Helsinki. As the two leaders drove from the airport to their summit, they were met by 300 billboards in English and Russian.
Read MoreIn Haiti, massive anti-austerity protests recently shut down parts of the capital Port-au-Prince after the government tried to dramatically raise fuel prices at the behest of the International Monetary Fund
Read MoreOf the 33 people who've been exonerated in the state of Maryland, only five have received compensation from the state.
Read MoreCurious to see how this would have played out had the ethnicities been reversed.
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