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Not long ago, I met Commissioner Catherine Purcell of the California Board of Parole. She was the first member I ever met, and I was intimidated. To many inside, parole board members are killers of ...

They woke me up at about 2:15 a.m. and took me to a holding tank where about 10 other prisoners were already waiting. There were benches on the side walls and a toilet and sink in the back corner.

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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 ...

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. No one who knows me from the free world would ever believe that I resorted to using heroin. I was never a party ...

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. This story is part of a partnership between Prison Journalism Project and Atmos, a biannual magazine that ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Marina Bueno lives at a women’s correctional institution only six miles from the campus of Miami Dade College in ...