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

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U.S. Prison writers react to the pictures of Secretary Kristi Noem standing in front of men packed tightly together in CECOT.

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 ...

Prison writers from across the U.S. describe how cold their prisons get in the winter — and what small dignities could make it more bearable.

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

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

Ahead of the presidential election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, a special series on voting in prison and after.

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 ...

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.

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

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.