Each year in the U.S., thousands of kids under the age of 18 are charged as adults and sentenced to adult jails and prisons.

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. It finally happened: Food from the dining hall made me physically ill. I have long thought I could eat anything, ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Photo by Anthony Grove/Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. This photo is of Little Scandinavia unit at SCI ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. In my Missouri prison wing, food is being hoarded, mental health is declining, and our families visit us less ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. My dormitory has a microwave now, and it’s the most exciting thing ever. The last and possibly only time I was ...

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. This story is a Kite, a special category dedicated to first-person reports that rely heavily on a writer’s ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Nothing in prison is soft and cuddly. Prisons are concrete and steel and stocked with hard people doing hard time ...

Don't miss our latest stories, delivered to your inbox once a week. Sign up The sweltering heat on my first day in Sing Sing Correctional Facility, a little more than an hour north of New York City, ...

We were supposed to come out of our cells today. It would have been only my third time leaving my cell to spend time in my prison unit’s common area, and I’ve been here for three months. I didn’t even ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Andrew’s birth was complicated. His mother had to be very strong while doctors used a vacuum to extract him. When ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Shortly after I entered state prison, at age 15, I received my first Pap smear, a cervical screening for cancer.