Studies show that a prisoner's human contact with loved ones makes it easier to reenter society.

As the pandemic ravaged prisons and jails, officials opted to force people into inhumane solitary confinement. HuffPost spoke to some who described how they “nearly broke.”

Incarcerated people remain one of the most at-risk groups of contracting COVID-19. So when will guards start doing their job to protect us?

"When you think about prison, do you think about tenderness, caring, and connections? They’re not common, but they’re here."

In a Washington State Prison, Solitary Confinement Is the First-Line Response to COVID, and a Bureaucratic Nightmare

I sometimes wonder how I got here. Not the fact that I’m stuck in a prison cell with a 45-year sentence, I know how that happened – greed.

Climate change is intensifying the suffering of incarcerated people.