Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. When I saw the announcement in spring 2024 for the second annual Battle of the Bands at my Colorado prison, I ...

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. In June 2023, I woke up in intense pain. It felt like someone had jammed a wrench into my shoulder socket, ...

In the 1980s, then-Chief Justice Warren E. Burger was vocal about the need for prison reform. In one instance, he was quoted as saying: “To put people behind walls and bars and do little or nothing to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Seasoned convicts will give you a handful of tips during your first stay in county jail. They will tell you how ...

"Outside the Rusted Decay Of Confinement," 2024 by Alvin Smith. Acrylic on canvas. Painted in a day room of the Muskegon Correctional Facility, in Michigan. What to the incarcerated American is the ...