Jeffery Shockley reflects on barriers he faced in his lawsuit against the Pennsylvania prison system after staff broke his typewriter.
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers. Photos from Adobe Stock One morning, in October 2022, a memo hit my tablet: ...
In January 2025, men in New Jersey State Prison were notified that the state prison system would be switching our communication system from JPay to Viapath Technologies. Some of us were excited about ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Marley is a blonde Labrador retriever. I knew her as a wiggly, happy dork who would lick my arms until they hurt.
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. [October 20, 2026] – The Prison Journalism Project (PJP), a national nonprofit that trains incarcerated writers ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. For three years while incarcerated, I experienced the digital world through a contraband cellphone, which ...
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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 ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Editor’s note: The story below captures the author’s experience arriving at a Chinese detention center after ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. There is not much I can do to control my situation at my prison. For example, I can’t choose to come and go from ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. For 13 years, I lived in concrete giants: Sterling Correctional Facility and Limon Correctional Facility — ...