Illinois River Correctional Center allowed incarcerated people to have their photo taken in 2024. The change has brought hope ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. The day I was processed into prison 10 years ago was the lowest point in my life. After setting fire to two ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Two weeks before Super Bowl Sunday in 2021, a few guys in my cellblock invited me to cook pizza with them for the ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. San Quentin’s Youth Offender Program guides youngsters under the age of 26 to better choices and outcomes in 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. In her nine years working in a mental health unit of the Washington State Penitentiary, S. Acosta has seen some ...

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. To understand life without the possibility of parole (LWOP), we must acknowledge what it is: a hopeless ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Everything was cold, gray and hard. The lights were too bright or too dim, but always tinted in a yellow haze. It ...

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 ...

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 ...