Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. For the majority of people behind bars, working a job is not optional. The 13th Amendment abolished slavery and ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Around 5 a.m. I wake up, wash my face, brush my teeth and make a cup of coffee. It’s strong and smells good. My ...
Aleksandr Kolpakov has developed a humanist group inside his Colorado prison. It has been difficult to get the religious freedom protections he says his group deserves.
In the late 1980s, Caroline Guy held a cassette recorder to her head, trying to record the voices she was hearing. She had torn through her apartment, throwing away electronics and furniture, hoping ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. How do you budget on a couple hundred dollars or less a month of income? That’s a question most people in prison ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. I took in the earthy perfume of the garden, picked a cherry tomato and popped it in my mouth. My months tending ...
A woman in Missouri describes how she built a support system in prison after her family rejected her for being trans.
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. This story is part of Locked Out, a special series from PJP about voting, politics and democracy behind bars.
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. My mornings start between 5 or 5:30 with oppressively bright cell lights that penetrate my two-sock-thick sleep ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. This essay was published in partnership with Al Jazeera English. On February 8, 2022, about an hour before the ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. The following story is part of PJP's special project, "The Graying of America’s Prisons." For this series, we ...
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