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. 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, ...
Photo illustrations by Sarah Rogers. Photos courtesy of the Authors For the third year, the Society of Professional Journalists and Prison Journalism Project have hosted the Stillwater Awards, an ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. [Miami, April 29, 2026] – The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and Prison Journalism Project (PJP) ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Over the past several years, the heat in New York state has grown more and more severe. In prison, heat is more ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. One morning last summer, I went to wash up in the dorm’s community sink area shared by close to 130 men. As I ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. This story was republished from Wall City, a documentary arts magazine created to inspire conversations across ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. After scarfing down breakfast, I hustled outside into pre-dawn darkness with five other incarcerated military ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. As I dress for breakfast, I can hear the distant sound of cell doors popping open for the drowsy masses of ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. In the free world, people are entitled to medical privacy by law. But inside prisons, as myself and others have ...