Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Two weeks before Christmas 2024, U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins visited the Louisiana State Penitentiary (known as Angola ...

The man who killed my brother might have been in jail with me. I decided mercy for him was the right choice.

Students saw photographs of their peers leaving prison and being embraced by college faculty and staff. The impact was profound.

At a prison in the Catskill Mountains, where I used to be incarcerated, some men were trying to buck the trend.

At 3 a.m., I wake up to the reality of a small prison cell, a paper-thin mattress, walls with chipping gray paint and 96 rusted steel bars.

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Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Just a few days after my article about the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ refusal to provide me and other prisoners ...

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

There are tailgates in the prison yard, heated arguments and occasional fights. But mostly, the football game is an escape.

I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass.

Ahead of the presidential election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, a special series on voting in prison and after.

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.