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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 ...
The holidays are a somber time in prison, but they are not only that. “[They present] a full spectrum of feelings,” Floridian Stephanie H. told PJP contributor Brittany Miles. “Some are happy because ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. There’s a common misconception that education in prison is free. I’ve heard this from staff at my prison, South ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. The announcement triggers a prison-wide movement across Miami’s Everglades Correctional Institution. In the ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. On Oct. 27, 2023, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, a 125-year-old veterans service organization, opened its ...
Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Certain topics are taboo in prison. Near the top of that list is HIV. More than 40 years after the virus first ...