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 ...

Oregon no longer allows many forms of physical mail. It’s become harder for people to send incarcerated loved ones Christmas cards.

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Arkansas is one of eight states, alongside Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina and ...

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 ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. On any given day, there are nearly 60,000 incarcerated teens in U.S. prisons and juvenile detention centers. The ...

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 ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. On Oct. 27, 2023, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, a 125-year-old veterans service organization, opened its ...

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. This story is a Kite, a special category dedicated to first-person reports that rely heavily on a writer’s ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. A childhood photo of the author holding her brother Isaac. (Photo courtesy of Claire Tak) “Outside/In” is an ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. When Richard Belec spent 10 months locked down in solitary confinement in Arizona, the mice and cockroaches ...

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