The incarcerated care workers of No One Dies Alone, at Carole Young Medical Facility, changed how one woman thought about dying in prison.

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. On Nov. 17, a man named Alex died by suicide in the Washington State Penitentiary’s Residential Treatment Units.

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 ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. As I trailed my hand along the railing of the pen, I felt the cool touch of steel and the warmth of the morning ...

The holidays are a somber time in prison, but they are not only that. “[They present] a full spectrum of feelings,” Floridian Stephanie H. told PJP contributor Brittany Miles. “Some are happy because ...

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. The sweltering heat on my first day in Sing Sing Correctional Facility, a little more than an hour north of New ...

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 ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. On any given day, there are nearly 60,000 incarcerated teens in U.S. prisons and juvenile detention centers. The ...

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, ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. In her nine years working in a mental health unit of the Washington State Penitentiary, S. Acosta has seen some ...