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I Was an Incarcerated Firefighter. Here’s What I Want People to Know.

California recently voted to preserve forced prison labor.

In This Debate Club, Incarcerated Students Challenge Ivy Leaguers

Inside the Rikers Debate Project.

I Should Have the Right to Hug My Incarcerated Dad

The jail my dad is in got rid of in-person visits years ago.

These Students Are Graduating From College Behind Prison Walls

“You're breaking down and rebuilding yourself as a human being.”

I Was a Teen in Solitary Confinement

There is no healing in those conditions.

Their Parents Were Locked Up for Years for Selling Weed

One $20 transaction put a father in prison for more than a decade.

New Mexico Has Lost Track of Juvenile Prisoners Locked Up for Life

“We are, quite literally, missing children.”

We Should All Be Commemorating Black August

“August is a month of meaning, of repression and radical resistance.”

This Teen's App Makes It Free to Connect With Incarcerated Parents

5.1 million children have had a parent in jail or prison.

Visiting Rikers Island Is Like Going to Hell and Back

This is what it’s like.

These Grassroots Activists Provide Books to Prisoners

Here's how they do it.

What the Prison-Abolition Movement Wants

Imagine a world without jails and prisons.

The Fight to Secure Labor Rights for Exploited Prisoners

“It’s time for incarcerated workers to be treated like workers."

“Recognize That This Is a Cage”: Two Formerly Incarcerated Women Recall Life on the Inside

“Becoming institutionalized is so easy.”

This Chicago Teen’s Music Inspired a Powerful Sculpture

“I wrote this piece because Nina Simone inspired me to.”

Books Are a Lifeline for People in Prison. So Why Are They Censored?

The state often blocks historical and educational texts, as well as many queer texts, claiming "sexually explicit content."

A Prison Guard Is Being Rehired After a Scandal Involving a Teen's Suicide Attempt

The guard will also receive $29,000 in back pay.

We Need to Talk About Oklahoma's Mass Incarceration of Indigenous Peoples

“I do this work because I understand the struggles that every incarcerated offender goes through.”

How Prison Labor Exploits Incarcerated People

In the first installment of her new column, No Class, Kim Kelly explains how prisoners on strike are pushing back.

Incarcerated People Around the Country Just Went on Strike

The nationwide prisoners' strike runs from August 21 to September 9.