Prison Journalism Project (PJP) is looking for a part-time contract editor to lead a new expansion of our coverage of postsecondary education, workforce training and reentry opportunities for people ...

It’s hard to find joy in solitary confinement. I rely on tiny comforts and small moments that bring me peace, comfort, happiness and maybe even laughter.

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Recently, I sat on a plastic chair across from Shakir, my teenage son. He had traveled with his older brother ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Days before the documentary “The Alabama Solution” was nominated for an Academy Award, the three main ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. I got to know James “Buck” Martin some years ago while working at Great Meadow Correctional Facility’s law ...

Incarcerated people on the helplessness, communication barriers and emotional toll of learning about family medical emergencies from inside.

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Today, as with most mornings, Ubaldo T. is helping people. He volunteers in the prison hospice, where he sits ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Mid-November dawn filtered through the barred windows of Cell Block C, where I began my morning vigil from my ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. My first time in prison I told myself that I would never be foolish enough to get tattooed in this atmosphere.

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 ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. The following story is part of PJP's special project, "The Graying of America’s Prisons." For this series, we ...