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 ...

On any given day, there are nearly 60,000 incarcerated teens in U.S. prisons and juvenile detention centers.. The problem begins with what advocates call the school-to-prison pipeline, or policies and ...

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 ...

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, ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. “If you loan me your car, I’ll put some gas in it.” This statement sounds typical, maybe from a teenager asking ...

A private school in Ohio, Ashland University, gives incarcerated individuals across the United States “second chances” to improve themselves by earning college degrees. Four people at Clinton ...