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. One Monday morning last summer, I dropped a transfer request in the prison’s outgoing mailbox. I was ready to ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. When someone is hired for a job out in the world, they receive training and sometimes a bonus upon completion. At ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. “Have a seat please, and tell us what we can do for you today.” This is the kind of greeting parole seekers ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Six pairs of eyes, six stories: illustrations by Sarah Rogers capture the observations of incarcerated writers ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Cells in the New Jersey State Prison, West Compound. These cells were called "shockingly small" in one government ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Days before the documentary “The Alabama Solution” was nominated for an Academy Award, the three main ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. I’ve lived in 26 cells over 27 years of incarceration. During that time, I have lived with more than 50 different ...
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 ...
Not long ago, I met Commissioner Catherine Purcell of the California Board of Parole. She was the first member I ever met, and I was intimidated. To many inside, parole board members are killers of ...
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 ...
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