I thought the game might be gruesome. Turns out, it was just like any other amateur sport. Some people played well, others played sloppily. There was good sportsmanship.

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. When I met Barbara Maxwell, 64, last fall, she was in deep grief over the deaths of two of her sons. “I’m sure it ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Still from the book trailer for "The Book of Judith" (New Village Press) Judith Tannenbaum spent her life as an ...

“I find it somewhat ironic that a person can learn to live life in a place where they were sent to die.” Living on death row is like a fish sinking into deep, dark water. Many find the pressure ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. In my eleven summers in Colorado, it seems everyone wears the same cologne. You won’t find this salty, acrid ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Decent mirrors are a scarce commodity in Florida’s women’s prisons. There are no full-length mirrors at all, ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. It’s not easy to form romantic relationships inside prison or continue them with lovers on the outside. Prisons ...

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 ...

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. Miami, May 9, 2025 – The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and Prison Journalism Project (PJP) proudly ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. A private school in Ohio, Ashland University, gives incarcerated individuals across the United States “second ...