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 ...

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

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. It’s December in Kuna, Idaho, just after 5 in the morning. Heavy fog covers the prison complex like a gray angora ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. This past Halloween, I hosted a first-of-its-kind gaming competition inside my housing unit at Farmington ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. On April 22, about 20 people from my Michigan prison gathered in our makeshift chapel to mourn the death of Pope ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. In Tennessee state prisons, practicing Islam is expensive. A Bible here costs $5.45, while a Quran goes for $7.25 ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Before I got my court case, my sister was 4 years old. Now she’s a 20-year-old college student. It’s been tough ...

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. “Chow Hall” is a semi-regular column by Justin Slavinski, a writer incarcerated in Florida who provides anecdotes ...

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 ...