Oregon no longer allows many forms of physical mail. It’s become harder for people to send incarcerated loved ones Christmas cards.

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 ...

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Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. This article was first published by Nash News, a prison newspaper at Nash Correctional Institution in Nashville, ...

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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. Marina Bueno lives at a women’s correctional institution only six miles from the campus of Miami Dade College in ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. For more than half of my life, I have not been free. I was sent to prison when I was 15 years old for ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. How prepared for reentry can an incarcerated individual really get? I have been incarcerated for almost nine ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Art is a conduit for creativity, emotional expression and healing — no less true inside prisons. Making art ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. An example of holiday art by Chad Weinstein It should surprise no one that incarcerated people struggle during ...