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.

In Florida state prisons, microwaves are usually off limits, but my dormitory recently got one. It’s made cooking easier and our food tastier.

Last year, Gov. Phil Murphy increased options for early release. It gave people in state prisons newfound hope.

Incarcerated women built a patio, and we use it for Bible study, leisurely picnics, to engage in mindfulness or yoga, and to play cards or crochet.

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. The view from my cell window is an Amazon shipping center. At night, I watch the big rigs on the loading docks, ...

Prison Journalism Project editors and staff share the stories they loved best from their incarcerated writers this year.

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

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

Many of New York’s prisons were built hundreds of years before modern cooling systems, and they have never been updated.