Earlier this year, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections made changes to the toilets. At State Correctional Institution, Mercer, toilet flushing in some cells is now limited to a single flush ...

Several months ago, a group of women gathered in the common room of our maximum security prison. They were loud and rowdy. A young officer trainee instructed the women to quiet down, according to ...

I thought the game might be gruesome. Turns out, it was just like any other amateur sport. Some people played well, others played sloppily. There was good sportsmanship.

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. One Monday morning last summer, I dropped a transfer request in the prison’s outgoing mailbox. I was ready to ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Trent Nelson/Salt Lake Tribune via AP, Pool, File. This June 18, 2010, file photo shows the firing squad ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Six pairs of eyes, six stories: illustrations by Sarah Rogers capture the observations of incarcerated writers ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Cells in the New Jersey State Prison, West Compound. These cells were called "shockingly small" in one government ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Days before the documentary “The Alabama Solution” was nominated for an Academy Award, the three main ...

All illustrations by Kristen Radtke for Prison Journalism Project. Republish This Story Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. In 2021, writer Dorothy ...

A view of the hospice garden from inside a vacant hospice room. Many of these windows had white shutters with adjustable slats to let the light in. Republish This Story Republish our articles for free ...

Many jobs in Wisconsin’s Oshkosh Correctional Institution consist of routine manual labor that helps the prison run: cooking, cleaning, laundering — that kind of thing. Most tasks could be completed ...