Prison Journalism Project (PJP) is looking for a Director of Learning who will provide strategic and operational leadership for all of Prison Journalism Project’s learning programs, driving the ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Years ago, during the pre-noon hour in a prison on the outskirts of Las Cruces, New Mexico, the battle was ...

Prison Journalism Project (“PJP”) is an independent, national nonprofit initiative that trains and publishes incarcerated writers so people most affected by incarceration can shape public ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. In November 2024, Noah Winchester went into his first mediation feeling shut down and walled up. Weeks earlier, a ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. No, that’s not a line from the classic Broadway show “Cats.” Nor is it an onomatopoeia from a T.S. Eliot poem. It ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. I spent my first years at Louisiana State Penitentiary in solitary confinement. I was detained 23 hours a day in ...

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 ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. The following story is part of PJP's special project, "The Graying of America’s Prisons." For this series, we ...

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 ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. My first time in prison I told myself that I would never be foolish enough to get tattooed in this atmosphere.

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers. Photos from Adobe Stock. A year ago, when I was transferred to the Mark W.

Trying to find a theme to Prison Journalism Project’s favorite stories of the year is a difficult undertaking. Some stories showed what happens when outside interests break through the razor-rimmed ...