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Articles by subject: prison

Captive audience (by Richard Smyth, July/August 2011 )
Sympathetic ear or religious recruiter - what’s a prison chaplain for? Richard Smyth finds out
Solitary (by Sharon Shalev, January/February 2011 )
30,000 supermax prisoners in the US are denied any human contact. So how does it affect them? Sharon Shalev goes inside
Banged up (by Erwin James, July/August 2006 )
Erwin James on a remarkable book written from behind bars
After the Gulag (by Laura Piacentini, March/April 2005 )
Laura Piacentini explores the paradoxes of Russia's prisons since the fall of the Soviet Union
Jailhouse Reels (by Andrew Tudor, January/February 2004 )
The release of Carandiru prompts Andrew Tudor to reflect on the prison movie genre
A friend to the friendless (by David Silver, Web Exclusive, July 2011)
In the July/August 2011 issue of New Humanist, Richard Smyth assessed the role of prison chaplains. Here David Silver, who is serving a life sentence in HMP Gartree, offers his view
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