Typically, issues of prison censorship have to do with what is and isn’t allowed into prisons. There are endless stories and studies on the banning of certain books and the major limitations on ...

Just a few days after my article about the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ refusal to provide me and other prisoners with addiction treatment ran in a local paper near United States Penitentiary, McCreary, ...

The artist Kenneth West once read that Jean-Michel Basquiat created 6,000 pieces of art, all before he died at age 27. “That’s amazing,” said West, 45, a painter and sculptor who works out of the W.F.

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Next, we were loaded onto a modern white bus with large, tinted windows. It was the size of a touring bus, like those used for musicians and sports teams. The bus was divided into three sections, each ...

“ This Video Game Has Residents of My Missouri Prison Obsessed ” by Byron Case This piece about a gaming community in a Missouri prison has many of the elements that make for a great story. It’s about ...

The Guns N’ Roses message has to be clunkily rewritten to pass through: “Hey Mom! I’m sending you an article I wrote about Axl Rose’s group and their music…” Everyday words that are also used as slang ...

Paulk was sent to foster homes for part of his childhood and turned to drugs and alcohol to cope. Substance abuse led to his first stint in prison, in 1999, when he became affiliated with a white ...

Nothing in prison is soft and cuddly. Prisons are concrete and steel and stocked with hard people doing hard time. Toughness is mandatory, brutality a virtue, as we resist — are forced to resist — the ...

If all of this seems overly fastidious, it is. But it is also used as a measuring stick of another person’s intelligence and social learning abilities. If we can trust you to shit in the accepted ...

What to the incarcerated American is the freedom to vote? For most of the nearly 1.5 million people locked up in prisons across the U.S., there is, in fact, no freedom to vote at all. Only two states, ...

For more than half of my life, I have not been free. I was sent to prison when I was 15 years old for second-degree murder, a crime I truly regret. I began my sentence at Thumb Correctional Facility, ...