The incarcerated care workers of No One Dies Alone, at Carole Young Medical Facility, changed how one woman thought about dying in prison.

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. When I met Ralph Marcus in June 2024 at California Medical Facility, he was sitting in his wheelchair in 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. 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. The following story is part of PJP's special project, "The Graying of America’s Prisons." For this series, we ...

The Associated Press Stylebook, as of yet, provides no guidance on the language around the incarcerated, but the Society of Professional Journalists emphasizes that reporters treat sources, subjects, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

When most people in the U.S. seek professional help, they expect the provider to improve the situation. Anybody would hold the service provider accountable for ineffective care. Yet that’s not the ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. For more than half of my life, I have not been free. I was sent to prison when I was 15 years old for ...