Coping with the demeaning and adversarial nature of prisons is taxing. Prison is loud. Violence breaks out. People are disruptive. For all of these reasons and more, prison causes mental, physical and ...

This cartoon is of a prison guard as a sheepherder. We’re the sheep. One main task of guards is to count the prison population. Count happens multiple times per day. This act is like a shepherd ...

These stories claim to celebrate resilience. But sometimes they distract from the deadly consequences of poor nutrition behind bars.

Juan Rios became a gang member when he was 11 years old. He started his first prison sentence at 19. Years later, after being released, he kept gang-banging. Then, at age 24, he shot three people ...

I wanted to highlight a military veterans service organization new to my prison. Then it got shut down.

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. In my New Jersey prison, Christians, Jews and Muslims congregate to worship and read their respective religious ...

Six journalists in U.S. prisons react to Trump’s proposal to send incarcerated U.S. citizens to foreign prisons.

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. Just a few days after my article about the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ refusal to provide me and other prisoners ...

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.