At a prison in the Catskill Mountains, where I used to be incarcerated, some men were trying to buck the trend.

I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass.

At Washington State Penitentiary, the prison mental health unit attempts to provide care for vulnerable individuals, but too often falls short.

I came to prison when I was 15. Now I’m 34. Behind bars, I've found peace with myself. Even in prison, I find blessings and witness beauty.

Luigi Mangione was incarcerated at my Pennsylvania prison, SCI Huntingdon, for close to two weeks in December. Here's what we saw.

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. The weight deck, where we exercise at the Washington State Penitentiary, is not hospitable to vegetation.

Drug overdose was the second most frequent cause of death among people in the federal system’s custody from 2014 through 2021, according to an audit by the inspector general.

The U.S. has made strides in reducing its teenage prison population, but it still sends thousands of youth to prison each year.

How one Missouri man structures his day, with work and study, to create a tolerable life behind bars.

Many of New York’s prisons were built hundreds of years before modern cooling systems, and they have never been updated.

The nonprofit Stockhands Horses for Healing brought horses into my Ohio prison Ohio. We got to ride them around as a form of therapy.

To understand life without the possibility of parole, we must acknowledge what it is: a hopeless imprisonment preceding death.