The state needs to cut its prison budget. The easiest way to do that is by overturning a 1990s-era law that has swollen the ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. About a decade ago, a prison guard stopped by my bunk for a random contraband search. I presented my prison ID, ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. April 17, 2024 — Prison Journalism Project (PJP), a national initiative that trains incarcerated writers to be ...
Not long ago, I met Commissioner Catherine Purcell of the California Board of Parole. She was the first member I ever met, and I was intimidated. To many inside, parole board members are killers of ...
In jail, my already fraught mental health continued to deteriorate. I developed an eating disorder, struggled with self-harm and attempted suicide. I needed help. But the only intervention the jail ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Photo from the Washington Department of Corrections In early June, a few members of the Washington State ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Top right illustration by Islenia Mil for The Marshall Project; Bottom left image Adobe stock; Bottom middle book ...
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 13 years, I lived in concrete giants: Sterling Correctional Facility and Limon Correctional Facility — ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. The writer John J. Lennon will have you know that he killed a man in New York City in the winter of 2001. He will ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Our touch-deprived bodies may have been separated by physical barriers, but we were still connected through our ...
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