Laws that cover medical privacy are not as comprehensive for us. Guards and incarcerated people can often hear our sensitive conversations.

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Gladys Cooper is not incarcerated, at least not physically. Her brother, Allen Phillips, is serving a sentence of ...

Following years of controversy surrounding lethal injections, the state is looking to automate the process of shooting people sentenced to death.

This woman has written to incarcerated people for six years. Through hundreds of letters, here’s what she’s learned about death in prison.

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. One Monday morning last summer, I dropped a transfer request in the prison’s outgoing mailbox. I was ready to ...

All illustrations by Kristen Radtke for Prison Journalism Project. Republish This Story Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. In 2021, writer Dorothy ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. My first time in prison I told myself that I would never be foolish enough to get tattooed in this atmosphere.

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. For more than half of my life, I have not been free. I was sent to prison when I was 15 years old for ...