‘Prison Nation" an exhibition at New York's Aperture Foundation and an accompanying edition of Aperture magazine, both looking at photography's role in creating a visual record of this reality.
The special issue of Aperture features the work of a dozen photographers and writers. The title "Prison Nation" is not just a reference to the scale of the problem, but also to the fact that mass incarceration has created a network of public agencies and private companies that profit from the system.
Written by Jacopo Prisco, CNN