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 ...
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 ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Trent Nelson/Salt Lake Tribune via AP, Pool, File. This June 18, 2010, file photo shows the firing squad ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. When someone is hired for a job out in the world, they receive training and sometimes a bonus upon completion. At ...
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. During the final weekends of 2025, instead of shooting hoops in the gym, writing in the library or playing cards ...
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. Nothing in prison is soft and cuddly. Prisons are concrete and steel and stocked with hard people doing hard time ...
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