2.2 million people who are currently locked up in America. The issue features VICE CEO Shane Smith in conversation with President Obama and an investigation by Molly Crabapple into the abuse of a group of whistle-blowers inside a Pennsylvania prison. Andrew Brininstool digs up the forgotten story of a 1980 New Mexico prison riot. We've partnered with the Nation Institute's Investigative Fund to report on the case of a Mississippi death-row inmate who may be innocent, and we've joined the Marshall Project on a trip to Germany to see what US reformers might learn from the European model of incarceration. The issue also includes fiction by Curtis Dawkins, who is currently serving a life sentence in a Michigan penitentiary; a photo series examining the surveillance of juvenile offenders; and a collaborative project pairing inmates in the US with renowned photographers across the world.A democratic society requires transparency in order to arrive at democratic solutions to its problems, and it's in that spirit that we present to you VICE's Prison Issue.—the editors
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Welcome to VICE Magazine's Prison Issue
2.2 million people who are currently locked up in America. The issue features VICE CEO Shane Smith in conversation with President Obama and an investigation by Molly Crabapple into the abuse of a group of whistle-blowers inside a Pennsylvania prison. Andrew Brininstool digs up the forgotten story of a 1980 New Mexico prison riot. We've partnered with the Nation Institute's Investigative Fund to report on the case of a Mississippi death-row inmate who may be innocent, and we've joined the Marshall Project on a trip to Germany to see what US reformers might learn from the European model of incarceration. The issue also includes fiction by Curtis Dawkins, who is currently serving a life sentence in a Michigan penitentiary; a photo series examining the surveillance of juvenile offenders; and a collaborative project pairing inmates in the US with renowned photographers across the world.A democratic society requires transparency in order to arrive at democratic solutions to its problems, and it's in that spirit that we present to you VICE's Prison Issue.—the editors