Incarcerated journalists detail the first signs of a heat wave in prison — and how they’ve coped with record-breaking temperatures.

The ongoing fight for more, and better, prison food.

At a Kentucky prison, inmates and staff switch places during a “re-entry to society” role-playing game.

Or, what happens when guards and prison staff interact as just human beings.

Tariq MaQbool reflects on disruptive COVID-era visitation restrictions that remain in effect at New Jersey State Prison.

Theothus Carter reflects on starring in the film “O.G.”, alongside Jeffrey Wright, while serving time in prison.

I once surveyed a plot of land for a future prison. Now I live in one.

Between scant information, limited phone time and insensitive staff, prison compounded a profound loss.

An inmate remembers his bond with a prison employee who was more than just “one of them.”

Demetrius Buckley thought his bond with his 11-year-old daughter was strong. But when he couldn’t physically protect his child from adult problems, he learned the limits of parenting via prison phone calls.

A prison volunteer's belief in second chances faces a difficult test.

When Eric Borsuk went to prison with his two best friends, they found their ‘bid’ — their purpose — together. Then one day, everything changed.

Demetrius Buckley’s long-awaited transfer to a lower-security prison means more time outside of his cell and a chance to see his daughter. But the transport process was like everything else in prison: slow, confusing and casually cruel.

“When the van pulls back up to the rear gates of the prison... it's almost a relief.”

“What neither of us knew was that coming to prison would create new worlds for me to build.”

What it’s like to slowly lose your mind in the grossest corner of the prison-industrial complex.

“I didn’t want to give any type of indication that I am in prison, because I didn’t want to be kicked out.”

“At the end of my life, I’d like to know that I wasn’t responsible for Lewis Clay spending his final days in prison.”

It’s a common misconception that once someone enters jail or prison, they lose their interest in the outside world.

From feces on the wall to constant gang calls, LaMarr W. Knox details the horrors of the transit unit at New York’s Green Haven prison.

We asked people in prison to track their earning and spending — and bartering and side hustles — for 30 days. Their accounts reveal a thriving underground economy behind bars.

The latest COVID-19 surge is happening behind bars, too. Here’s three accounts from an upstate New York prison hit by the pandemic.

As a queer teen, Michael Shane Hale found belonging in books. Here’s how he built a place where everyone can read in peace in prison.

Minnesota’s Healthy Start law allowed Victoria Lopez to begin her seven-year prison sentence at home with her infant twins. Now comes the separation.

Jy’Aire Smith-Pennick suffered multiple traumas before age 18. He masked his pain with Percocet, weed and drug-selling. Now, at a Pennsylvania prison with the right programs, he’s finally starting to heal.

After a steady diet of shows like “Oz,” I was convinced that prison would be a paradise for monsters. Turns out, the abuse I experienced came directly from the system.

A reflection on “the improbability of us.”

Celebrating freedom in a place of bondage.

“It felt like all eyes were on me.”

After spending 22 years in solitary confinement, anything larger than my cell threw me into panic.

“Nothing about life inside prison is normal.”

“I didn’t have a way to communicate. And they basically just flipped me the bird.”

“I am not evidence that the system ‘works.’ I am an outlier, dripping in luck.”