Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. The first phone call I made in prison was to my liberal grandmother. After we’d talked for a while, she said, ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. It appears the same changes might soon come to New Jersey, where I’m incarcerated. Assembly Bill 2609 would ...

The incarcerated care workers of No One Dies Alone, at Carole Young Medical Facility, changed how one woman thought about dying in prison.

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. On Nov. 17, a man named Alex died by suicide in the Washington State Penitentiary’s Residential Treatment Units.

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Photo courtesy of California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation This article was first published by San ...

All illustrations by Kristen Radtke for Prison Journalism Project. Republish This Story Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. In 2021, writer Dorothy ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. For more than half of my life, I have not been free. I was sent to prison when I was 15 years old for ...

The holidays are a somber time in prison, but they are not only that. “[They present] a full spectrum of feelings,” Floridian Stephanie H. told PJP contributor Brittany Miles. “Some are happy because ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. The following story is part of PJP's special project, "The Graying of America’s Prisons." For this series, we ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Art is a conduit for creativity, emotional expression and healing — no less true inside prisons. Making art ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. On a recent Friday morning, I went to the email kiosk to check for new messages. Once I signed in, I saw a ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Nothing in prison is soft and cuddly. Prisons are concrete and steel and stocked with hard people doing hard time ...