Aleksandr Kolpakov has developed a humanist group inside his Colorado prison. It has been difficult to get the religious freedom protections he says his group deserves.

A woman in Missouri describes how she built a support system in prison after her family rejected her for being trans.

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. A photo of the first time Daina McKinney visited her father Destry in prison around 2011. Photos Courtesy of ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. The blue trays were disgusting at the chow hall in my wing of the Mark Stiles Unit, a Texas prison 85 miles east ...

It’s hard to find joy in solitary confinement. I rely on tiny comforts and small moments that bring me peace, comfort, happiness and maybe even laughter.

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. Before my release to a halfway house in June, most nights I could look over and see Lucky in the cubicle across ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. In the Deep South, everybody loves their pets. People in prison are no different. We have pet squirrels, lizards ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. On April 10, an older transgender woman at my prison, affectionately referred to as Mama P., informed other trans ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. On Oct. 27, 2023, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, a 125-year-old veterans service organization, opened its ...

Alabama’s prison homicide rate is among the highest in the country, leaving many changed people to die behind bars. I remember the first day I stepped foot inside a prison. It was 1995. The place was ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. On any given day, there are nearly 60,000 incarcerated teens in U.S. prisons and juvenile detention centers. The ...