The state needs to cut its prison budget. The easiest way to do that is by overturning a 1990s-era law that has swollen the ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. April 17, 2024 — Prison Journalism Project (PJP), a national initiative that trains incarcerated writers to be ...
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 ...
In jail, my already fraught mental health continued to deteriorate. I developed an eating disorder, struggled with self-harm and attempted suicide. I needed help. But the only intervention the jail ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. About a decade ago, a prison guard stopped by my bunk for a random contraband search. I presented my prison ID, ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Photo from the Washington Department of Corrections In early June, a few members of the Washington State ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Top right illustration by Islenia Mil for The Marshall Project; Bottom left image Adobe stock; Bottom middle book ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Just a few days after my article about the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ refusal to provide me and other prisoners ...
Arkansas, 1935. Source: Farm Security Administration Collection, U.S. Library of Congress. Photo by Ben Shahn. There are so many misconceptions about Black fathers. How often has the mother of a child ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. My first time in prison I told myself that I would never be foolish enough to get tattooed in this atmosphere.
In the 1980s, then-Chief Justice Warren E. Burger was vocal about the need for prison reform. In one instance, he was quoted as saying: “To put people behind walls and bars and do little or nothing to ...
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