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

I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass.

At Washington State Penitentiary, the prison mental health unit attempts to provide care for vulnerable individuals, but too often falls short.

Four years ago, my younger brother Isaac, then 32, was sentenced to 19 years in prison. His crime was carjacking and accessory to murder. I can still see my elderly parents, overcome with grief, ...

I came to prison when I was 15. Now I’m 34. Behind bars, I've found peace with myself. Even in prison, I find blessings and witness beauty.

Standing between the law and incarceration gives me a unique perspective on mass incarceration in America.

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

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 ...

Drug overdose was the second most frequent cause of death among people in the federal system’s custody from 2014 through 2021, according to an audit by the inspector general.

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

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 ...

The U.S. has made strides in reducing its teenage prison population, but it still sends thousands of youth to prison each year.