“A noisy maze”: HMP Coldingley, where Keller attended the “Lifer Day” event © In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images

From the August/September 2023 issue

The alarming Americanisation of British prisons

Bill Keller, former editor of the New York Times, has documented the dysfunction the US criminal justice system. Now he watches with horror as UK prisons head the same way

By Bill Keller

July 19, 2023

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Bill Keller is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who edited the New York Times from 2003–2011. He is the founder of the Marshall Project, which publishes nonprofit journalism about criminal justice, and the author of “What’s Prison For?” (Columbia Global Reports)

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