When someone is incarcerated, maintaining a connection with the outside world becomes a lifeline. One of the most powerful ways to keep that connection is through writing love letters. These letters ...

The Appeal, a nonprofit news organization focusing on criminal justice, last week published an excellent report on commissary price gouging in U.S. prisons. It includes a database of prison commissary ...

Josh Duggar, once known as the clean-cut eldest son of the 19 Kids and Counting family, is now serving a 12.5-year sentence at FCI Seagoville in Texas. Since his 2022 conviction on federal child ...

When Brian Anderson thinks of the work he does building homes for South Dakota's Governor's House Program, he equates it to "slave labor." He is, after all, an inmate at the Mike Durfee State Prison ...

Anyone who has supported a loved one in prison knows that commissary prices for basic necessities and food to supplement the poor and scant provided meals inside are high. But how high? Our friends at ...

Advocates for prisoners in Nevada are celebrating the “historic” passage of a new state regulation that decreases prison commissary sale markups on items from a maximum of 66% to 35%. Before the ...

It’s not just your grocery bill going up — people in prison are facing rising food costs, too. Several incarcerated people say Tennessee prisons do not serve enough food in their chow halls, which ...