Bill Keller is founding editor of The Marshall Project, an independent non-profit focused on crime and punishment in the U.S. He previously spent 30 years at The New York Times as a correspondent, editor, and op-ed columnist. During his eight years as The Times’ executive editor, the paper won 18 Pulitzer Prizes, expanded its audience and newsroom staff, and adapted to the internet. In 1989 he won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the collapse of the Soviet Union. He lives in New York.
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What's Prison For? examines the “incarceration” part of mass incarceration. Our prisons remain a shameful waste of lives and money, feeding a pathological cycle of poverty, community dysfunction, crime and hopelessness. What is the alternative... SEE MORE