Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. For the majority of people behind bars, working a job is not optional. The 13th Amendment abolished slavery and ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Editor’s Note: Since Lexie Handlang wrote this story, the Missouri state senate has banned the use of department ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Around 5 a.m. I wake up, wash my face, brush my teeth and make a cup of coffee. It’s strong and smells good. My ...

Aleksandr Kolpakov has developed a humanist group inside his Colorado prison. It has been difficult to get the religious freedom protections he says his group deserves.

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. I took in the earthy perfume of the garden, picked a cherry tomato and popped it in my mouth. My months tending ...

In the late 1980s, Caroline Guy held a cassette recorder to her head, trying to record the voices she was hearing. She had torn through her apartment, throwing away electronics and furniture, hoping ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. How do you budget on a couple hundred dollars or less a month of income? That’s a question most people in prison ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Our touch-deprived bodies may have been separated by physical barriers, but we were still connected through our ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. April 17, 2024 — Prison Journalism Project (PJP), a national initiative that trains incarcerated writers to be ...

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. For more than half of my life, I have not been free. I was sent to prison when I was 15 years old for ...