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On March 24, 1800, the first issues of Forlorn Hope rolled off the presses and into the hands of eager readers at a New York City debtors’ prison. Though its incarcerated staff initially sought to use ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. The best way to describe my life is that it feels like a TV show. Sure, it’s similar to the reality TV show, ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers. Photos from Adobe Stock. A year ago, when I was transferred to the Mark W.

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. For the first time in almost three decades, the Pell Grant is once again available to incarcerated individuals ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. On any given day, there are nearly 60,000 incarcerated teens in U.S. prisons and juvenile detention centers. The ...

In the United States, journalists enjoy broad freedoms to investigate, author and publish news stories for the public good. There are also robust laws, such as the Freedom of Information Act, that ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. This essay was published in partnership with Al Jazeera English. On February 8, 2022, about an hour before the ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. On a recent Friday morning, I went to the email kiosk to check for new messages. Once I signed in, I saw a ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Nothing in prison is soft and cuddly. Prisons are concrete and steel and stocked with hard people doing hard time ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. As I trailed my hand along the railing of the pen, I felt the cool touch of steel and the warmth of the morning ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. The following story is part of PJP's special project, "The Graying of America’s Prisons." For this series, we ...