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.

Alabama’s prison homicide rate is among the highest in the country, leaving many changed people to die behind bars. I remember the first day I stepped foot inside a prison. It was 1995. The place was ...

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Ahead of the presidential election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, a special series on voting in prison and after.

This is my second time being in Colorado State Penitentiary, which has been referred to as the most violent prison in the state. My first stint here I saw death within a month of arriving.

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