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At a prison in the Catskill Mountains, where I used to be incarcerated, some men were trying to buck the trend.
Luigi Mangione was incarcerated at my Pennsylvania prison, SCI Huntingdon, for close to two weeks in December. Here's what we saw.
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. It is difficult to describe the overwhelming excitement of getting mail while incarcerated. When I started this ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. In February, I was transported from Saguaro Correctional Center in Eloy, Arizona, to the Idaho State Correctional ...
I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass.
Incarcerated people tend to hundreds of thousands of bees at the honeybee colonies inside Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution.
I came to prison when I was 15. Now I’m 34. Behind bars, I've found peace with myself. Even in prison, I find blessings and witness beauty.
Many of New York’s prisons were built hundreds of years before modern cooling systems, and they have never been updated.
Drug overdose was the second most frequent cause of death among people in the federal system’s custody from 2014 through 2021, according to an audit by the inspector general.
May 30, 2024 — The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and Prison Journalism Project (PJP) have today announced the winners of the inaugural Stillwater Awards. The Stillwater Awards are a joint ...
Instead of telling you about how brutal the Florida heat is, I will show you. The walk from most prison dormitories in my state to the dining hall is in full sunlight. Shade, in the form of trees or ...
The U.S. has made strides in reducing its teenage prison population, but it still sends thousands of youth to prison each year.