A new issue of Surveillance and Society is out. Alexander Volokh (Emory): Prison Vouchers. Sharon Dolovich (UCLA): Strategic Segregation in the Modern Prison. Mary Sigler (ASU): The Political Morality of the Eighth Amendment. If you think flogging is too cruel to even consider, what would you do if given the choice between five years in prison and 10 brutal lashes? From Yes!, a special issue on prisons: How to stop wasting lives and money. "Long prison terms are wasteful government spending": Criminologist Mark Kleiman on replacing severity with swiftness and certainty. Prison overcrowding and Brown v. Plata: It’s going to take a lot more than a Supreme Court decision to reform our appalling prisons. A review of Interrupted Life: Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States; Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women by Victoria Law; The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison and Fighting for Those Left Behind by Safiya Bukhari; and The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander. Imagine a jail where dangerous inmates awaiting trial live 24 to a room and fight each other under a violent gladiatorial code — this is life inside Miami's mega-jail. Do prisoners really spend all their time lifting weights? No, but they can watch all the yoga videos they want. The problem with being a prisoner is that you have to wade through a river of bullshit: An interview with Wilbert Rideau, editor of the prison magazine, The Angolite. Why writers belong behind bars: From a strictly literary point of view, prison was the best thing that ever happened to the Marquis de Sade — other writers should be so lucky. Michelle Phelps on the dangerous trade-off between education and incarceration.