Christopher Moraff is a journalist, writer and photographer whose work has covered topics ranging from architecture to politics. He was a 2014 H.F. Guggenheim Fellow at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and writes on criminal justice, policing and civil liberties for Al Jazeera America, PennLive and Next City. His byline has appeared in The Daily Beast, The American Prospect, Washington Monthly, Business Insider, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia magazine and World Politics Review. From 2004 until 2013 he served as a writer-at-large for The Philadelphia Tribune–producing feature-length stories around the issues of criminal and prisoner justice. He occasionally (ok, rarely) blogs on media in the digital age at http://thehamsterwheel.org/. He has degrees in sociology and journalism from Temple University in Philadelphia, where he lives with his wife and their bevy of semi-domesticated rescue animals.