Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. We were on high alert once the rain started coming down thick and heavy. It was a Thursday morning in late ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. James Paulk has a portrait of Adolf Hitler tattooed on his back. People like Paulk are not supposed to spend time ...

Prison Journalism Project was founded in April 2020 with the aim of changing the storytellers. We are an independent, national nonprofit initiative that trains incarcerated writers to be journalists ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. In November 2023, during the first nine weeks after my transfer and arrival to Dillwyn Correctional Center, in ...

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Since 2021, people incarcerated in California have enjoyed the privileges of free phone calls and affordable messaging services via state-issued tablets. Messaging is now much more convenient than in ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. In December 2023, eight months earlier than expected, I became eligible for community release. I was ecstatic. I ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. If you’re currently eating, then don’t read this. Or if you plan to eat in the near future. Or perhaps ever.

Everyone loves a good rivalry, some probably a little too much. Down here in Alabama, the state’s two largest universities, the University of Alabama and Auburn University, clash in the Iron Bowl ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. In 2022, when I was incarcerated at Willard-Cybulski Correctional Institution in Connecticut, guards told us we ...

In 2021, at his Arizona prison, Larry Dunlap noticed how people with vision impairments were being treated: The prison wasn’t providing them with necessary reading materials or equipment, like canes.