Content warning: Discussions of abuse and sexual assault. 1."I worked in a state prison for 26 years. What I've learned is that 1) Respect works both ways. 2) Listening is more important than talking.

The call-and-response song was one of many that Black men sang as they toiled on Southern prison farms. This essay is part of ...

HUNTINGTON, West Virginia — It was after midnight when she crept down the narrow, dimly lit stairs carrying a bag of dirty laundry. She crossed under a patchwork of pipes and ducts to the far back ...

Neither the U.S. nor the California Constitution completely prohibits involuntary servitude, broadly defined as forced work under threat of punishment. The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ...

All but seven of 2,000 offenders at HMP Oakwood are in work inside the prison A prison has set a UK record with the number of its inmates working while behind bars, it has been revealed. HMP Oakwood, ...

I have been in prison for 33 years now, and for 28 of those years I tried, unsuccessfully, to get an education. When I was on death row, I was told by corrections officers that getting an education ...