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.

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Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. The year before I came to prison, in 2005, California banned all non-prison-issued denim in men’s prisons.

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Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. On a recent Friday morning, I went to the email kiosk to check for new messages. Once I signed in, I saw a ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Just a few days after my article about the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ refusal to provide me and other prisoners ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. A mated pair of swallows recently built a nest outside the door of the housing unit in my Tennessee prison. The ...

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Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Everyone loves a good rivalry, some probably a little too much. Down here in Alabama, the state’s two largest ...

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 ...

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 ...