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The VICE LIVE hosts discuss recent controversial comments by Maine Republican representative Richard Pickett.

VICE en Español spent the day at Punta de Rieles, talking to inmates and learning about Uruguay's progressive "open" prison.

VICE meets Harlem legend Pee Wee Kirkland. Tracing Pee Wee's life story, we learn of his life as a drug kingpin, an NBA recruit, and a mentor to at-risk youth.

Eric Kelley talks us through how he was incarcerated for a robbery and murder he did not commit, as the result of a false confession.

Vice teams up with the Innocence Project to tell the stories of recent exonerees.

Most people are introduced to forensic science through TV and film, and because of this we have come to see forensic techniques as foolproof methods for solving crimes. But many forensic science techniques were not developed by scientists.

Compensation for the wrongfully convicted differs vastly by state. We meet two recent exonerees from Kansas and Indiana who face two very different outcomes -- purely because of where they live.

In the first episode of 'Innocence Ignored,' VICE meets Leroy Harris, a man who took an Alford plea after serving 29 years for a crime he has always maintained he didn't commit.

More than 2,000 wrongfully convicted people have been exonerated in the United States since 1989 according to the National Registry of Exonerations.

Filmmaker James Burns spent two years following Jason Bobbitt, an ex-convict and father of five who, despite attempts to retain meaningful employment, fails and returns to prison.

VICE News visited a Colorado prison as longtime inmates used virtual reality for the first time.

Overcrowded and underfunded, Luzira is home to Uganda’s only maximum-security prison--but also an elaborate soccer league.