Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Two weeks before Christmas 2024, U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins visited the Louisiana State Penitentiary (known as Angola ...

Students saw photographs of their peers leaving prison and being embraced by college faculty and staff. The impact was profound.

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

Apprenticeships offered in Idaho prisons teach people skills, give them freedom and prepare them for reentry.

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Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Just a few days after my article about the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ refusal to provide me and other prisoners ...

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. It is difficult to describe the overwhelming excitement of getting mail while incarcerated. When I started this ...

There are tailgates in the prison yard, heated arguments and occasional fights. But mostly, the football game is an escape.

I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass.

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Seasoned convicts will give you a handful of tips during your first stay in county jail. They will tell you how ...

Ahead of the presidential election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, a special series on voting in prison and after.