We Train Prison Journalists to Change the Narrative About Mass Incarceration Prison Journalism Project is an independent, national nonprofit organization that trains incarcerated writers to be ...

No one who knows me from the free world would ever believe that I resorted to using heroin. I was never a party animal, and I didn’t need to use drugs to enhance my natural good vibes. But now it’s ...

I overcame PTSD after fighting in war, but I had no encounters with other mental illnesses until I helped people in crisis at my prison.

Unlike the meat we are served, there is no great mystery to Aramark’s motives. They are not responsible for providing the best possible, most nutritious, most appealing food to Florida prisons, ...

This story is part of Locked Out, a special series from PJP about voting, politics and democracy behind bars. Click here to read more. When I arrived at the Central Treatment Facility of the ...

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 my cell when I want. Rather than let these restrictions defeat me, I remain optimistic ...

In March, the Christian worship group Maverick City Music and gospel singing legend Kirk Franklin came to the Everglades Correctional Institution (ECI), in Florida, to produce a live recording of a ...

The following story is part of PJP's special project, "The Graying of America’s Prisons." For this series, we curated reported stories and essays from across the country to catalyze a conversation ...

To understand life without the possibility of parole (LWOP), we must acknowledge what it is: a hopeless imprisonment preceding death. While many people advocate for abolishing the death penalty, they ...

The weight deck, where we exercise at the Washington State Penitentiary, is not hospitable to vegetation. Sunbaked gravel and decades of dumbbells dropped from prisoners’ hands make it the last place ...

Growing up, I hated writing. I abhorred everything about it, from the rules of grammar to dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s. But most of all, I viewed the physical labor of writing (especially in ...

Prison Journalism Navigator Prison Journalism Project’s vision is to help create a national network of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated correspondents, who can report on news, stories and lived ...