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 ...

Luigi Mangione was incarcerated at my Pennsylvania prison, SCI Huntingdon, for close to two weeks in December. Here's what we saw.

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. In February, I was transported from Saguaro Correctional Center in Eloy, Arizona, to the Idaho State Correctional ...

In addition to time in the hole, a rule violation provokes a whole cascade of other punishments.

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 ...

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 ...

Lam Vo describes his reentry experience after 15 years incarcerated, and the support he’s received from programs and family.

I came to prison when I was 15. Now I’m 34. Behind bars, I've found peace with myself. Even in prison, I find blessings and witness beauty.

Many of New York’s prisons were built hundreds of years before modern cooling systems, and they have never been updated.

From a California prison, I’ve experienced state attempts to censor prisoners’ free expression. We need journalism to spotlight prisons.

May 30, 2024 — The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and Prison Journalism Project (PJP) have today announced the winners of the inaugural Stillwater Awards. The Stillwater Awards are a joint ...

The U.S. has made strides in reducing its teenage prison population, but it still sends thousands of youth to prison each year.