Vice Magazine Compiles Powerful 'Prison Issue'
The U.S. is home to nearly a quarter of the world's prisoners.
There are plenty of angles covered in the October issue of Vice magazine. Led by the interview Vice CEO Shane Smith conducted with President Obama during the POTUS’ visit to the Federal Correctional Institution in El Reno, Okla. this summer, a conversation carried over from HBO Sept. 27.
There’s also a feature for which Vice partnered with the Nation Institute’s Investigative Fund. Titled “A Death Sentence in Mississippi,” Spencer Woodman’s feature profiles a Death Row inmate who appears innocent of the 2001 murder crime for which he was convicted:
After Marlon Howell was transported [in 2006] to Death Row, his two sisters canvassed local lawyers to take up his appeals pro bono.
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