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 ...

Aleksandr Kolpakov has developed a humanist group inside his Colorado prison. It has been difficult to get the religious freedom protections he says his group deserves.

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. I wake up early at 6 a.m. It’s a habit I picked up back in my early 20s, when I was a defense contractor for a ...

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 ...

I got to know James “Buck” Martin some years ago while working at Great Meadow Correctional Facility’s law library, where we both clerked. No one introduced us; our inevitable meeting was the result ...

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 ...

The holidays are a somber time in prison, but they are not only that. “[They present] a full spectrum of feelings,” Floridian Stephanie H. told PJP contributor Brittany Miles. “Some are happy because ...

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. When I was sentenced to prison, I lost certain rights. I lost the right to go where I wanted, when I wanted. I ...

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 ...