Lucas Foglia, Vanessa and Lauren watering, GreenHouse Program, Rikers Island jail complex, New York, 2014. © the artist and courtesy Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, New York

“Slavery in the United States was never abolished – it simply changed shape,” wrote Miss Rosen for Dazed Digital’s feature on Prison Nation, Aperture magazine’s latest edition, which looks at the state of the US’s flawed prison system. A series of eye-opening images are shared alongside a complex interview with scholar Nicole R. Fleetwood, who, with Aperture Magazine’s editor, Michael Famighetti, edited the issue.

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Zora J Murff, Megan at 16 , 2014, from the series Corrections , 2013–15. Courtesy the artist

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