Officials delayed the delivery of critical documents for months, leading to the premature dismissal of at least two appeals filed by incarcerated men.
Under state law, adult prison sentences are automatically enhanced based on prior youth adjudications.
I don’t know if I’ll ever receive the resentencing hearing I was once promised, but I do know this system must change.
Five incarcerated men on the minute-by-minute experience of solitary confinement.
Inside the towering walls and razor wire fences of U.S. prisons, slavery remains legal—and it is carried out with little oversight, often under horrific conditions.
The phrase “toxic masculinity” is ubiquitous these days, but there are few places where it’s more all-consuming than in a men’s prison
The birds quickly became the talk of the unit. Suddenly, everyone was an ornithologist, claiming to know whether barn swallows were endangered.
If we get caught in the path of raging flames, what will be the plan for those of us locked behind bars?
Despite the frequency of in-custody deaths, their exact scope remains unknown and data is often intentionally obfuscated.
Strip searches, a practice that dates back to auctions of enslaved people, have long been common in U.S. prisons.
Despite New Jersey’s 2019 law aimed at reforming solitary confinement, reports indicate the state’s Department of Corrections continues practices that may violate this legislation.
A technical error by Securus Technologies in November 2023 deleted all draft messages from incarcerated individuals’ e-messaging accounts in Washington State prisons, erasing important writings with no recovery option, while the company offered minimal compensation.
Incarcerated writer Christopher Blackwell reflects on a transformative justice group where men with violent pasts confront their own trauma, highlighting the link between systemic hardship and violence as key to healing and prevention.
We cannot punish our way out of gun violence. Instead, we must invest in dismantling the structures that allow this violence to thrive.
Medical Isolation Has Become the Latest Form of Abuse in America's Prisons
