Information about the prison system is limited, and policy makers and voters are shaping the lives of incarcerated people without their input. We’re bringing transparency to the world of mass ...

In the United States, journalists enjoy broad freedoms to investigate, author and publish news stories for the public good. There are also robust laws, such as the Freedom of Information Act, that ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. For more than half of my life, I have not been free. I was sent to prison when I was 15 years old for ...

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 ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. In late March, images of U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem standing in front of rows of men packed ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. When Theresa Grady, 62, calls her husband in prison, she tries not to let her voice crack and does her best not ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Chris Jacobs was 16 when he robbed a store. The man with him shot someone to death there, later took a plea ...

This story is part of Locked Out, a special series from PJP about voting, politics and democracy behind bars. Click here to read more. When I arrived at the Central Treatment Facility of the ...

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Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Art is a conduit for creativity, emotional expression and healing — no less true inside prisons. Making art ...

Emily Galvin-Almanza is the co-founder and executive director of Partners for Justice, a new model of collaborative public defense designed to empower public defenders nationwide. Launched in 2018, ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Nothing in prison is soft and cuddly. Prisons are concrete and steel and stocked with hard people doing hard time ...