Andrew Lewis pays $320 a month on his student loans. Daniel Chung doesn’t know how much debt he’ll end up with on top of the $7,500 he already has. The rising college senior plans to go to law school, ...

Many of us have felt the isolation the COVID-19 pandemic has brought into our lives, but few have felt that isolation more than people in prison. During peak COVID months in 2020, many prisons ...

For Cecily McMillan, getting mail while incarcerated was a complex project. Any letter that was sent to her went through a metal detector and was opened by correctional officers before landing in the ...

"It was an immense and solid building, erected at vast expense. I could not help thinking, as we approached the gate, what an uproar would have been made in the country, if any deluded man had ...

"If something cannot go on forever, it will stop." --the late economist Herbert Stein A human just cannot fathom a trillion. It's much too big a number. Somebody put it this way: If you spent a ...

In St. Louis County, the home of police-shooting victim Michael Brown, a practice with a long history has become systematic: the operation of modern-day debtors’ prisons. A Debtors' Prison follows two ...