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Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Idaho spends almost $75 a day to house me and every other person in its prisons. At around 8,000 people ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. People in my facility are feeling the impact after Missouri increased the price of phone calls from state prisons ...

Then in April 2023, electronic tablets came to our prison. They doubled as phones. All of a sudden, we went from sharing phones with 1,600 people to each having our own. The stress evaporated, and the ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. When I entered Tennessee’s prison system in 1992, the pay for most jobs ranged from 17 cents an hour for ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Growing up, Travion Malone, 27, didn’t have an ideal relationship with his grandfather Randy Matkins. There were ...

Prison Journalism Project publishes stories that help readers understand what life is like inside the prison system and provide perspectives on ways the system can be improved. We also like to publish ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. For lifers serving time in New Mexico prisons, formal education is hard to come by. Like many states, the Land of ...