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For Monday 24th September I'd like to dedicate Pods and Blogs to prison blogging and blogging from jails. I'm inspired by this post by

There are more than 9 million people in prison worldwide - that’s a much larger population than many nations we cover. (By the way, the US is the world’s leading jailer, both in absolute terms - 2.09 million people in the prison system - and proportional terms - 0.71% of Americans are in prison. We beat out China and Russia in absolute terms, Belarus and Russia in proportional terms.)

Britain also has a growing prison population. I want your help in putting this segment together. If you know of a blog maintained by someone in prison, or by their friends and family please drop me a note. Or perhaps you are a victim of crime with strong views about prison, and the prison system, we'd be interested in hearing from you too.

We're not coming at this with any particular agenda about whether prison is a good or bad thing. But the blogs are a very powerful tool for shedding light on dark corners, peering behind bars and over barbed wire fences. Help us to visit what, following Ethan, we might call this other nation: get in touch, suggest links, drop us an email.