The outcry apparently achieved its intended effect. On Oct. 11, 2024, less than a year after it opened, the post was officially shut down. Members of the group felt betrayed and abandoned by the VFW, ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. The view from my cell window is an Amazon shipping center. At night, I watch the big rigs on the loading docks, ...

After spending 10 years in prison, I embarked on a 600-mile journey from Fort Dix, a federal prison in New Jersey, to a halfway house in Detroit. Early on the morning of my release, my name was called ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. One day at the Washington State Penitentiary, I saw a blind man named Francisco and his friend Jorge walking down ...

At a prison in the Catskill Mountains, where I used to be incarcerated, some men were trying to buck the trend.

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 ...

Luigi Mangione was incarcerated at my Pennsylvania prison, SCI Huntingdon, for close to two weeks in December. Here's what we saw.

A formerly incarcerated writer argues that, as long as prisons exist, they should reduce their environmental impact.

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Terminal Island federal prison rests on a benign 25-acre plot shared with a U.S. Coast Guard station on San Pedro ...

Many of New York’s prisons were built hundreds of years before modern cooling systems, and they have never been updated.

I will likely live the rest of my days in a New Jersey prison. But before I do, we need a process to ensure our Islamic burial rites.