They became 'chosen brothers' in a maximum-security prison. Then one got out.

Scott Harmon and Mark Williams met each other in a maximum-security prison in the heart of Pennsylvania coal country in 2012.
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How a Notorious Maximum-Security Prison Was Transformed into a Thriving Preschool

This story was co-published with Mother Jones. It was January 2022, and Rhian Allvin was in search of a space that could bring her vision to life. The early childhood leader had just finished up her ...

Inside Waupun prison, here's how Wisconsin license plates get made

For more than a century, residents of the maximum-security prison in Waupun have produced the state's license plates. Here's what the job entails.
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What should a 21st-century prison look like?

Prisons are not social dustbins, yet many societies continue to treat them as such. Prisons have drifted away from the ...