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Wall of room in Ward Retreat 1 at St. Elizabeth's psychiatric hospital in Washington, D.C. Via the Otis Historical Archives National Museum of Health and Medicine.

A Message from Prison

When somebody just needs to disappear.

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Set Free on Holy Thursday

Today I watched a man go free. I was on a jury, trying him for the crime of breaking into an apartment and stealing a cell phone. We heard the…

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Let Freedom Wring

I didn’t know it was Banned Books Week when I attended the discussion on Sherman Alexie’s National Book Award-winning The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian at the school…

Eastern State Penitentiary, from the series "Abandoned Souls" by Ted Daniels. Click the image to see more.

Imagining Prisons

From a Protestant monastery to the prison-industrial complex.

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Hear the Prison Panel

The May 1st KtB panel on “The Prison-Spirituality Complex” was a big success, and now you can hear it in full, whether you were able to make it to The…

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A Jam-Packed Weekend of Prison Panels

Whet your prison-panel appetite, the Friday night before KtB’s Prison-Spirituality Complex. Join Anthony Cardenales, Piper Kerman, and Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, for the PEN Prison Writing Panel, moderated by Jackson Taylor.…

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A Preview of KtB’s Prison Panel Saturday

What’s on tap for KtB’s “Prison-Spirituality Complex” panel discussion this Saturday night? Redemption stories that have shaped America’s prisons. Fantasies of solitude that have made solitary confinement the American way of…

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Hoping for Option B

Two brothers talk about the death penalty, kayaking, and the reality of evil.

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Get Out of Jail with God

Mark Bergen, KtB circulation manager and writer, has a piece over on Religion Dispatches today. Responding to gutted state and federal budgets, the religious right is stepping into America’s prisons,…

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Panel: The Prison-Spirituality Complex

Saturday, May 1, 2010 7:00 – 9:00 PM (Cocktail hour begins at 6:00) The Tank Space for Performing and Visual Arts 354 W. 45th Street (between 8th and 9th Ave.)…

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Abandoned Souls

Photographing spaces of enforced meditation at Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary.

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Locked Up; Thrown Out

Six years ago today, sitting in front of a television with the rest of the country, we jotted down a few thoughts that soon became a reflection on the World…

"'Pray for strength,' he said.  'I need strength.'"

Convicted

An ex-con challenges his teammate’s faith.

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What’s Past Jersey?

A dispatch from the co-founder of The Lineage Project, an organization bringing storytelling, meditation, and yoga to incarcerated youth in New York City and Riker’s Island City Jail.