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.

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

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.”

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.”

JJ Velazquez served nearly 24 years for a murder he didn’t commit. A unique prison arts program transformed him into an actor and activist.

Prison journalist Kwaneta Harris on “the hole” at Lane Murray Unit: “It is not uncommon for guards to withhold food unless we take our shirts off.”

St. Louis activist Khanika Harper found the perfect way to marry her passion for justice with the power of love: She became a prison wedding officiant.

“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.”

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.

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

I learned music theory through workshops at New York’s Sing Sing prison. I earned my stripes by singing for boisterous crowds of incarcerated critics.

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.

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.

“Down in a wastewater-treatment pit, I kept furiously shoving the black liquid toward the pump, with a squeegee.”

“It felt like all eyes were on me.”