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.

The corrections policy (Reception and Classification Policy 11.2.1) states that the overall goal is for the inmate to return “to the community as a law-abiding citizen,” but in my experience, there is ...

In January, back-to-back polar vortexes unleashed subzero temperatures on much of the country, breaking thousands of daily snow and cold records.. Ten inches of snow was dumped on New Orleans in late ...

There is not much I can do to control my situation at my prison. For example, I can’t choose to come and go from my cell when I want. Rather than let these restrictions defeat me, I remain optimistic ...

Unlike the meat we are served, there is no great mystery to Aramark’s motives. They are not responsible for providing the best possible, most nutritious, most appealing food to Florida prisons, ...

I haven’t heard voices here raised in such raucous unison since February 2018, when the Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl. Though it was hard for Caprariello to hear anyone shouting from C Block, ...

For more than half of my life, I have not been free. I was sent to prison when I was 15 years old for second-degree murder, a crime I truly regret. I began my sentence at Thumb Correctional Facility, ...

Prison makes an awful elderly care facility, yet more prisons are rapidly becoming just that. Thanks in large part to longer prison sentences and decreasing rates of parole, the number of incarcerated ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. For the first time in almost three decades, the Pell Grant is once again available to incarcerated individuals ...

To understand life without the possibility of parole (LWOP), we must acknowledge what it is: a hopeless imprisonment preceding death. While many people advocate for abolishing the death penalty, they ...

Free Speech in Prison. While Americans enjoy broad free speech rights outside of prison, those rights do not necessarily exist behind bars. There are different legal guidelines for different types of ...