A warehouse will be converted into classrooms, a computer room, library and a small cafe for students at one prison.

We Train Prison Journalists to Change the Narrative About Mass Incarceration. Prison Journalism Project is an independent, national nonprofit organization that trains incarcerated writers to be ...

I haven’t heard voices here raised in such raucous unison since February 2018, when the Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl. Though it was hard for Caprariello to hear anyone shouting from C Block, ...

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 ...

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. Everything was cold, gray and hard. The lights were too bright or too dim, but always tinted in a yellow haze. It ...

I paced the floor, taking shallow, rapid breaths. My heart was racing. I knew my name would be called soon, around 10 a.m. I had urinated at least four times in the past hour and was feeling the need ...

Prisons are like small cities. They operate around the clock, are densely occupied and consume vast amounts of energy. At a typical institution, incarcerated residents and correctional officers exist ...

There is not much I can do to control my situation at my prison. For example, I can’t choose to come and go from my cell when I want. Rather than let these restrictions defeat me, I remain optimistic ...

For more than half of my life, I have not been free. I was sent to prison when I was 15 years old for second-degree murder, a crime I truly regret. I began my sentence at Thumb Correctional Facility, ...

Arkansas is one of eight states, alongside Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas, that makes inmates do hard labor for free.I’m at Cummins Unit in Grady, Arkansas, ...

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 ...