The outcry apparently achieved its intended effect. On Oct. 11, 2024, less than a year after it opened, the post was officially shut down. Members of the group felt betrayed and abandoned by the VFW, ...

At a prison in the Catskill Mountains, where I used to be incarcerated, some men were trying to buck the trend.

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. In my New Jersey prison, Christians, Jews and Muslims congregate to worship and read their respective religious ...

Typically, issues of prison censorship have to do with what is and isn’t allowed into prisons. There are endless stories and studies on the banning of certain books and the major limitations on ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. In 2000, I started a life sentence at New Jersey State Prison, in Trenton. Over roughly 25 years behind bars, I ...

Luigi Mangione was incarcerated at my Pennsylvania prison, SCI Huntingdon, for close to two weeks in December. Here's what we saw.

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 ...

Prison Journalism Project editors and staff share the stories they loved best from their incarcerated writers this year.

It is a reflection of how we treat incarcerated people. If you lock them up under extreme conditions, they will do extreme things.

I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass.

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 ...