Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. I can still remember my brother, Franklyn Dominguez, running through Central Park. At just 13 years old, he was ...

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In the 1980s, then-Chief Justice Warren E. Burger was vocal about the need for prison reform. In one instance, he was quoted as saying: “To put people behind walls and bars and do little or nothing to ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. When a person is convicted, it is easy to forget they are more than a felon. They are someone’s son or daughter.

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 ...

In January, back-to-back polar vortexes unleashed subzero temperatures on much of the country, breaking thousands of daily snow and cold records. Ten inches of snow was dumped on New Orleans in late ...

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Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. In February, I was transported from Saguaro Correctional Center in Eloy, Arizona, to the Idaho State Correctional ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. This holiday season, PJP editors asked formerly incarcerated writers how the holidays have changed for them since ...

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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 ...

"Outside the Rusted Decay Of Confinement," 2024 by Alvin Smith. Acrylic on canvas. Painted in a day room of the Muskegon Correctional Facility, in Michigan. What to the incarcerated American is the ...