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Then in April 2023, electronic tablets came to our prison. They doubled as phones. All of a sudden, we went from sharing phones with 1,600 people to each having our own. The stress evaporated, and the ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. When I entered Tennessee’s prison system in 1992, the pay for most jobs ranged from 17 cents an hour for ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Growing up, Travion Malone, 27, didn’t have an ideal relationship with his grandfather Randy Matkins. There were ...

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 ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. How prepared for reentry can an incarcerated individual really get? I have been incarcerated for almost nine ...

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 ...

Alabama’s prison homicide rate is among the highest in the country, leaving many changed people to die behind bars. I remember the first day I stepped foot inside a prison. It was 1995. The place was ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Every weekday my alarm clock wakes me up at 5:30. Then the usual: I brush my teeth, get dressed and slap some ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. This story is a Kite, a special category dedicated to first-person reports that rely heavily on a writer’s ...