Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Editor’s note: The story below captures the author’s experience arriving at a Chinese detention center after ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. At the start of the summer, the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry announced in an ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. For lifers serving time in New Mexico prisons, formal education is hard to come by. Like many states, the Land of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Arkansas is one of eight states, alongside Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina and ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Everything was cold, gray and hard. The lights were too bright or too dim, but always tinted in a yellow haze. It ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Even after 23 years of witnessing brutal fights behind prison walls, I remained ignorant to the gravity of mental ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. No one who knows me from the free world would ever believe that I resorted to using heroin. I was never a party ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. It’s often assumed that you can’t obtain drugs in prison. That’s an understandable misconception, given the ...