The man who killed my brother might have been in jail with me. I decided mercy for him was the right choice.

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

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U.S. Prison writers react to the pictures of Secretary Kristi Noem standing in front of men packed tightly together in CECOT.

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 ...

Prison writers from across the U.S. describe how cold their prisons get in the winter — and what small dignities could make it more bearable.

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. It is difficult to describe the overwhelming excitement of getting mail while incarcerated. When I started this ...

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 ...

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

Ahead of the presidential election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, a special series on voting in prison and after.

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 ...