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

Many of New York’s prisons were built hundreds of years before modern cooling systems, and they have never been updated.

This is my second time being in Colorado State Penitentiary, which has been referred to as the most violent prison in the state. My first stint here I saw death within a month of arriving.

Prison Journalism Project contributors share their reflections on what is like to celebrate the holidays inside prison.

They were sent to prison for life without parole. But national changes now mean these North Carolina men have a shot at release.

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Terminal Island federal prison rests on a benign 25-acre plot shared with a U.S. Coast Guard station on San Pedro ...

You won’t find it in any psychology manual. But incarceration-borne PTSD is a real mental health disorder, and it’s reached crisis levels.

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

I came to prison when I was 15. Now I’m 34. Behind bars, I've found peace with myself. Even in prison, I find blessings and witness beauty.

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. The urban film “Dutch” premiered on Black Entertainment Television (BET) during the first week of June 2021, but ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. The weight deck, where we exercise at the Washington State Penitentiary, is not hospitable to vegetation.

After 13 years in a Missouri prison, this veteran describes his first day on the outside as a period of radical (but exciting) adjustment.