Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Recently, I was having a conversation with my younger brother Robert on the phone when he mentioned the killing ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. The pod, a kind of self-contained housing unit, instantly shifts from frenzied, normal prison activity to ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Back in early September, I was watching TV at Oregon State Penitentiary when I saw an announcement about an ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. I’ll never forget the first time I went to lockup, a restricted housing unit where you’re sent after being ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. In my New Jersey prison, Christians, Jews and Muslims congregate to worship and read their respective religious ...

Six journalists in U.S. prisons react to Trump’s proposal to send incarcerated U.S. citizens to foreign prisons.

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Just a few days after my article about the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ refusal to provide me and other prisoners ...

In January, back-to-back polar vortexes unleashed subzero temperatures on much of the country, breaking thousands of daily snow and cold records. Ten inches of snow was dumped on New Orleans in late ...

Don't miss our latest stories, delivered to your inbox once a week. Sign up This story is a Kite, a special category dedicated to first-person reports that rely heavily on a writer’s first-hand ...

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 ...

PJP is an independent national nonprofit initiative that trains incarcerated writers to be journalists and publishes their stories. We work with incarcerated writers and those in communities affected ...

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 ...