Every morning, I wake up to two lemon-colored eyes peering at me. They belong to Lady, a delicate and regal Persian-domestic mix, with short, feathery ebony fur. She is my only friend in this dismal ...

My Florida facility has special incentives, one of which is ice cream. For a while, we’ve gotten pints, a larger portion than usual.

Coping with the demeaning and adversarial nature of prisons is taxing. Prison is loud. Violence breaks out. People are disruptive. For all of these reasons and more, prison causes mental, physical and ...

Juan Rios became a gang member when he was 11 years old. He started his first prison sentence at 19. Years later, after being released, he kept gang-banging. Then, at age 24, he shot three people ...

I wanted to highlight a military veterans service organization new to my prison. Then it got shut down.

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. In 2000, I started a life sentence at New Jersey State Prison, in Trenton. Over roughly 25 years behind bars, I ...

Luigi Mangione was incarcerated at my Pennsylvania prison, SCI Huntingdon, for close to two weeks in December. Here's what we saw.

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. In February, I was transported from Saguaro Correctional Center in Eloy, Arizona, to the Idaho State Correctional ...

In addition to time in the hole, a rule violation provokes a whole cascade of other punishments.

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 ...

Lam Vo describes his reentry experience after 15 years incarcerated, and the support he’s received from programs and family.

I came to prison when I was 15. Now I’m 34. Behind bars, I've found peace with myself. Even in prison, I find blessings and witness beauty.