The outcry apparently achieved its intended effect. On Oct. 11, 2024, less than a year after it opened, the post was officially shut down. Members of the group felt betrayed and abandoned by the VFW, ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. The view from my cell window is an Amazon shipping center. At night, I watch the big rigs on the loading docks, ...

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

I am livid about being forced to march ahead of her while carrying these bags with my friend’s belongings, my hands aching from their weight and the cold. A little understanding right now would mean ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. The pod, a kind of self-contained housing unit, instantly shifts from frenzied, normal prison activity to ...

Six journalists in U.S. prisons react to Trump’s proposal to send incarcerated U.S. citizens to foreign prisons.

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. In 2000, I started a life sentence at New Jersey State Prison, in Trenton. Over roughly 25 years behind bars, I ...

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. Upon leaving prison, some people choose to enrich their lives through parenthood. But those reentering society ...

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 ...

Prison Journalism Project editors and staff share the stories they loved best from their incarcerated writers this year.