Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers. Photos from Adobe Stock. As inflation continues to affect households ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Growing up in small-town Oregon, my family lived along the poverty line. We clung to lower-middle class status by ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. One of Prison Journalism Project’s year-end traditions is to share our favorite stories of the year. This year — ...

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 — ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. This summer, I was transferred from a federal prison in Florida’s panhandle to one located in coastal South ...

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. For more than half of my life, I have not been free. I was sent to prison when I was 15 years old for ...

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.

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 ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. When I met Ralph Marcus in June 2024 at California Medical Facility, he was sitting in his wheelchair in the ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. This story is a Kite, a special category dedicated to first-person reports that rely heavily on a writer’s ...