Texas prisons are instituting 15-day lockdowns for drug offenses. These long lockdowns might increase violence and damage relationships.

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Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. People in my facility are feeling the impact after Missouri increased the price of phone calls from state prisons ...

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Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. No one who knows me from the free world would ever believe that I resorted to using heroin. I was never a party ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Everything was cold, gray and hard. The lights were too bright or too dim, but always tinted in a yellow haze. It ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. This essay was published in partnership with Al Jazeera English. On February 8, 2022, about an hour before the ...

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 ...