Laws that cover medical privacy are not as comprehensive for us. Guards and incarcerated people can often hear our sensitive conversations.

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Gladys Cooper is not incarcerated, at least not physically. Her brother, Allen Phillips, is serving a sentence of ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. One Monday morning last summer, I dropped a transfer request in the prison’s outgoing mailbox. I was ready to ...

Following years of controversy surrounding lethal injections, the state is looking to automate the process of shooting people sentenced to death.

This woman has written to incarcerated people for six years. Through hundreds of letters, here’s what she’s learned about death in prison.

Some incarcerated people at a prison in Tennessee have speculated that guards want weekends off to watch football.

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Wisconsin announced plans in 2025 to close a maximum security prison by 2029, but the plan still remains unclear.