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Credit: Prison Reform Trust --> Many years ago, fellow journalist Loren Stein and I worked with the Center for Inves...

Courtesy of ABF Yesterday, I read a great article in the Guardian about the power of forgiveness: "Iranian killer's executi...

  Family members of political prisoners executed during mass massacres of the 1980s and the summer of 1988, gather at Tehran’...

--> This picture is part of Prison Memoir in Painting by Iranian artist Soudabeh Ardavan. She spent eight years in Iranian ...

Herman Wallace (left) and Albert Woodfox in Angola prison  A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post on two men who have spent 40 years in so...

Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace Two men, likely to be innocent, have been locked up in solitary confinement in the infamous Ang...

I haven’t posted anything on my blog for a while because I was away in Ghana on a reporting trip. I’ll write about it later.  While I...

As the Arab uprising is breathing a new life into the Iranian opposition, a remarkable new venture is slowly gathering pace outside...

Sakineh Mohammad Ashtiani is still alive; she has apparently confessed "sin of adultery" to Iran TV. Appearing on TV f...

Paul outside Wandsworth prison/photo by Caroline Irby Can you really change after a life of crime? How easy is it to escape an addict...