prisons Archives - The American Scholar

The Case of the Widening Gap

By Adam Benforado | 06/08/2015 |

One Day in the Life of Melvin Jules Bukiet

By Melvin Jules Bukiet | 03/01/2007

A Manhattan writer runs afoul of the local penal system and lives to tell the tale

Tomorrow Is Another Day

By Carol Huang | 09/01/2006

An Ethiopian student survives a brutal imprisonment by translating Gone with the Wind into his native tongue