"One minute, you think a guy would cut your heart out just for something to do, and the next, he might be making tea for a ...

The prospect of facing incarceration for the rest of one's natural life forces an individual to find hope, one researcher ...

Most of us only know what prison life looks like thanks to movies and TV shows — and those tend to exaggerate almost everything. In reality, a lot of what people believe about prison is a mix of myths ...

Content warning: Discussions of abuse and sexual assault. Over the past year, I've asked both former inmates and people who've worked in corrections to share aspects of prison life that most people ...

After living 42 years wrongfully incarcerated in the Angola State Penitentiary, Gary Tyler has spent the past decade living and working as an artist and advocate in Los Angeles. His newest exhibition ...

Early one morning in 2003, I woke up next to my girlfriend, Ambere, in the Venice Beach apartment that we shared. Sunlight flitted over the Pacific Ocean and into our bedroom. I ate breakfast and ...

Hope is not a soft word in prison. It shapes how people cope with their sentence and it determines whether - and how - they ...