Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Photo from the Washington Department of Corrections In early June, a few members of the Washington State ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. One of The Marshall Project’s readers has spent more than 40 years incarcerated in a Washington state facility.

On Feb. 2, a group of women incarcerated at the Perryville state prison in Arizona went on a hunger strike following an alleged assault by a prison guard. A young woman in the Santa Cruz Unit, Sherry ...

An incarcerated writer explains how switching communication platforms has made people lose access to old grievances and ...

An incarcerated writer reflects on how mail scanning affected his ability to connect with his son through personal letters.

Jeffery Shockley reflects on barriers he faced in his lawsuit against the Pennsylvania prison system after staff broke his typewriter.

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. This story is part of a collaboration with Prison Banned Books Week 2026, an annual event that documents and ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. I entered my cell and found my cellmate babbling, a spaced-out look in his eyes. The pungent scent of burnt paper ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. On Aug. 22, I saw something I had never seen before in my 20-plus years in Alabama prisons. Around 1 p.m. on that ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. In June last year, sometime after I arrived at the holding area of the Jennifer Road Detention Center, outside ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. The writer John J. Lennon will have you know that he killed a man in New York City in the winter of 2001. He will ...