John* is in prison. Yet five days a week, he’s allowed out. He has a job, working in a warehouse a few miles away. He can even stay at home sometimes. He’s an inmate at HMP Hatfield, an open prison ...

LONDON — It’s been a strange sort of prison break: no daring escapes, no Hollywood getaways — just inmates quietly released, by mistake, onto the streets of Britain. What once might have been an ...

The world spends hundreds of billions yearly to punish offenders, with little return beyond more crime and less hope. DW examines how private contractors, organized crime gangs and inmates exploit ...