Tag: prison reform

• The Spectacular Comeback Tour of Ross Ulbricht, the Founder of Silk Road

  September 8, 2025

  Ross Ulbricht, who created the Silk Road dark web marketplace and was serving a life sentence for drug distribution, has embarked on a strange and unexpected comeback after President Trump… more ›

• Tom Stevenson · The Mask Is Off: Bukele’s Prison State

  September 4, 2025

  Giving the US access to El Salvador’s expanded prison system as an offshore gulag has made Nayib Bukele a darling of… https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n16/tom-stevenson/the-mask-is-off?utm_campaign=3750239_20250903NewIssue&utm_medium=email&utm_source=LRB%20email&dm_i=7NIQ,28DPB,3GWB87,46O6R,1 more ›

• Could US criminals be sent to El Salvador’s mega-jail?

  March 16, 2025

  US Secretary of State Marco Rubio could not have been more complimentary about the deal he struck with the president of El Salvador on Monday. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg4jx8xyjgo more ›

• Brazil’s top court votes to decriminalize marijuana possession in move that could reduce prison numbers

  June 26, 2024

  Black Brazilians make up almost two-thirds of the country’s overcrowded prison population, despite comprising just 10% of the national population, Bloomberg reported. https://www.semafor.com/article/06/26/2024/brazils-top-court-votes-to-decriminalize-marijuana-possession more ›