Thinking outside the box

Over her decade as a prison officer, Alex South worked with some extraordinary colleagues, and saw what prisons at their best are like. She also saw the bad side – illicit affairs, violence, squalid conditions – getting gradually worse

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

With the prison system under strain, low-risk offenders could be serving time working in Iceland instead of sitting in a cell – but not everyone’s convinced it’s a good idea. So we ask…

Two competing visions of Black liberation in 1960s Detroit

Life on the outside It has been two ...

Controversy of the week The assisted dying bill ...