Release Notes

摘要

In her 10-plus years at wired, senior photo editor Zana Woods has presided over her share of challenging photo shoots. But few were as challenging as the one for "Relocating Prisoners" (page 148), this month's piece about how inmates get moved around the country. To capture the process, Woods and photographer Michael Schmelling flew the real Con Air (in this case, an old Alaska Airlines jet) from New York to Oklahoma with 117 federal prisoners, who, she notes, were offered neither a pillow nor their choice of beverage during the flight. Woods once directed a shoot in a maximum-security prison, but flying in a plane with possible terrorists and murderers was more nerve-racking.