Earlier this year, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections made changes to the toilets. At State Correctional Institution, Mercer, toilet flushing in some cells is now limited to a single flush ...

I thought the game might be gruesome. Turns out, it was just like any other amateur sport. Some people played well, others played sloppily. There was good sportsmanship.

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. About two years ago, I was sent to solitary confinement for having a cellphone charger and marijuana in my cell.

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. I put hope on layaway 12 years ago when I was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison without the ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Still from the book trailer for "The Book of Judith" (New Village Press) Judith Tannenbaum spent her life as an ...

“I find it somewhat ironic that a person can learn to live life in a place where they were sent to die.” Living on death row is like a fish sinking into deep, dark water. Many find the pressure ...

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.

All illustrations by Kristen Radtke for Prison Journalism Project. Republish This Story Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. In 2021, writer Dorothy ...

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. This article was first published by Nash News, a prison newspaper at Nash Correctional Institution in Nashville, ...

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. For more than half of my life, I have not been free. I was sent to prison when I was 15 years old for ...