Gregory Sharkey spent 15 years in prison for a crime he says he didn’t commit. He was finally freed last month—but will those responsible for caging him be held accountable?

This essay is part of How to Live With Regret, a series exploring the nature of regret and the role it plays in all our lives.

Most people in prison can’t vote. This is what they want you to think about when you cast your ballot.

If we lose incarcerated journalists, we lose a whole voice from the conversation.

The state must move more urgently to phase out the cruel and archaic practice.

In June, I stepped into a body scanner outside the visitation room at the Washington Corrections Center and held my breath.

Most prisons have no real plan for how to deal with the kind of misery climate change inflicts—and will inflict—on incarcerated people

Still-lingering effects of lockdowns have left incarcerated people with fewer ways to grow and learn.

In prison, there is no space to grieve. I kept thinking that if only I was home, I could have given her the support she needed.

“I was different than the 22-year-old who had made that devastating decision, but I couldn’t say when that shift had begun.”