After an investigation, my sexual abuse claim was found unsubstantiated. The process made me feel like reporting the abuse ...

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 ...

Information about the prison system is limited, and policy makers and voters are shaping the lives of incarcerated people without their input. We’re bringing transparency to the world of mass ...

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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 ...

On March 24, 1800, the first issues of Forlorn Hope rolled off the presses and into the hands of eager readers at a New York City debtors’ prison. Though its incarcerated staff initially sought to use ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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. I came to prison at 15. Because I was so young, I didn’t know who I was when I arrived. I felt insecure about ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Just a few days after my article about the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ refusal to provide me and other prisoners ...