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Cover Photo by Cig Harvey
POETRY / Fall 2009

Benediction

By Natasha Trethewey ,  Photography by Joshua Cogan
CRITICISM / Fall 2009

Exegesis

By Natasha Trethewey ,  Photography by Joshua Cogan
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CRITICISM / Summer 2015

Carol Muske-Dukes and the Art of Empathy

By Debra Nystrom
Centre Pénitentiaire de Lille-Annoeullin. France, 2013. Photograph by Jan Banning.
PHOTOGRAPHY / Fall 2017

Law & Order

Photography by Jan Banning ,  Essay by Lauren Markham
Illustration by Shawn Theodore
ESSAYS / Spring 2019

Survivor Files

By Mitchell S. Jackson ,  Illustration by Shawn Theodore
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REPORTING / Fall 2004

A Prison Beyond the Law

By Joseph Margulies
MAPPING / Fall 2020

Charged

By Alexander Brock ,  Illustrations by Jenn Boggs
Illustration by Harriet Lee-Merrion
FICTION / Winter 2021

Vanishing Point

By Olivia Parkes ,  Illustration by Harriet Lee-Merrion
Illustration by Sophia Deng
ESSAYS / Fall 2022

Bidders of the Din

By Eric Borsuk ,  Illustration by Sophia Deng
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