Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. My morning started out as it always had. Woke up. Washed up. Coffee. Read. Breakfast. Watched videos on channel ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. In my 22 years incarcerated in Washington state, I’ve worked a variety of jobs, such as a wheelchair pusher, a ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. I woke up at 2:30 a.m. Not because I had to, but because I couldn’t sleep. It felt like Christmas morning. My ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Recently, my lawyer instructed me to read the original transcripts from my trial and other legal documents he ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Don't miss our latest stories, delivered to your inbox once a week. Sign up This story is a Kite, a special category dedicated to first-person reports that rely heavily on a writer’s first-hand ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Don't miss our latest stories, delivered to your inbox once a week. Sign up The sweltering heat on my first day in Sing Sing Correctional Facility, a little more than an hour north of New York City, ...