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Not long ago, I met Commissioner Catherine Purcell of the California Board of Parole. She was the first member I ever met, and I was intimidated. To many inside, parole board members are killers of ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Over the years, Texas prison administrators have tried various ways to keep drugs out. They have moved to ...

They woke me up at about 2:15 a.m. and took me to a holding tank where about 10 other prisoners were already waiting. There were benches on the side walls and a toilet and sink in the back corner.

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. In May, on the day decorated Gulf War veteran Jeffrey Hutchinson was to be executed, I was working at the license ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. January 28, 2026 – Prison Journalism Project (PJP), a national nonprofit that trains incarcerated writers in ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Education was always a challenge for me. By the time I was in second grade, my mom could no longer help me with ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. My unit on a New Jersey prison’s west side is a hard place, both literally and figuratively. The unit was built ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. No one who knows me from the free world would ever believe that I resorted to using heroin. I was never a party ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. The following story is part of PJP's special project, "The Graying of America’s Prisons." For this series, we ...

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 ...