Former South African political prisoner Breyten Breytenbach, on how prison changes all your perceptions in ways that last after you've been released. The painter and poet was interviewed by New Yorker writer Lawrence Weschler for a radio series called Territories of Art, for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles in 1986.

Reporter Scott Carrier does a story about Harvey "Job" Matusow.

Barry Miller, a Cincinnati millionaire who robbed a bank — and was caught. Alex Blumberg reports.

A former addict and a former prisoner discuss the developmental retardation their experiences caused.

First, an interview with Jim Nelson, then, an interview with Eli, a computer hacker who was thrown in prison by federal authorities for his crimes.

They can't pronounce the names, can't read the maps, don't know the history, and are on an idealistic quest for justice that so far has not flowered. Kitty Felde, on Americans at the War Crimes Trial for the former Yugoslavia.Interview with Michael Ignatieff about war crimes trials and truth commissions.

A story about Christmas at Juvenile Court by Chicago novelist/editor Reginald Gibbons.

In the last few years, laws and sentencing guidelines have become much harsher. Sociologically this has had some good effects.

In the 1990s, Eli was a member of MOD, one of the most infamous and accomplished computer hacking groups in history. He was eventually arrested and served time in a minimum-security prison and home confinement.

Ira talks with Ed Ryder, who was wrongly imprisoned for twenty years and recently released. The whole time Ryder was in prison, he dreamt of starting up a band.