Lawrence BartleyLawrence Bartley is the founder and director of “News Inside,” the print publication of The Marshall Project ...

PJP believes that the only way to expand journalism behind bars and shed light on the U.S. prison system is to work together.

Who do you accept submissions from? We specialize in publishing stories by people who have experienced jail and prison firsthand. That means we accept stories from writers who are incarcerated or ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. For the first time in almost three decades, the Pell Grant is once again available to incarcerated individuals ...

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Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. The following story is part of PJP's special project, "The Graying of America’s Prisons." For this series, we ...

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Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. This article was first published by Nash News, a prison newspaper at Nash Correctional Institution in Nashville, ...

In the United States, journalists enjoy broad freedoms to investigate, author and publish news stories for the public good. There are also robust laws, such as the Freedom of Information Act, that ...

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 ...

"Outside the Rusted Decay Of Confinement," 2024 by Alvin Smith. Acrylic on canvas. Painted in a day room of the Muskegon Correctional Facility, in Michigan. What to the incarcerated American is the ...

“Chow Hall” is a semi-regular column by Justin Slavinski, a writer incarcerated in Florida who provides anecdotes and insights about food and meals served in prison. In my last column, I explored the ...