The Bootlegging, Blues Singing Star of 1930s Prison Radio
[ad_1] Filed 1:00 p.m. EDT 04.12.2026 Hattie Ellis was poised for post-prison fame. Then she encountered shotcallers who didn’t value her voice. This essay is part of Redemption Songs, a limited-run newsletter that spotlights one song each week by…
Meet B. Alexis, the First Woman to Release an Album From Pri…
[ad_1] This essay is part of Redemption Songs, a limited-run newsletter that spotlights one song each week by incarcerated artists. Sign up now to get a new song each Sunday afternoon over 25 weeks: Listen if you like: Rapsody, Tierra Whack and Eve Freer…
Want Safer NY Prisons? Here’s What Hochul and Legislature Sh…
[ad_1] My neighbor, Jean Frantz, 52, has been in prison since he was 20 years old. Several of his teenage years were spent locked up, too. He sports a baldie with a razor scar that stretches from the top of his head to the back of his neck, a reminder of…
New Year’s in Prison is Different, Especially with a Long Se…
[ad_1] Five…four…three…two…one… Happy New Year! Balls drop. Confetti flitters. Fireworks burst. We dance, drunk-sing our favorite songs, and kiss our favorite lover. The year has begun — unless you’re in prison. On the outside, my…
News Inside: How personal stories illuminate systemic failur…
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Mississippi Prison Killing Leaves Mother With No Answers Aft…
[ad_1] By Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Today Additional reporting contributed by Leonardo Bevilacqua, Mississippi Today Text messages and a video from a prisoner inside the Mississippi State Penitentiary have raised questions about a homicide there during…
AI in Prison? Robot Guards? How the Criminal Justice System …
[ad_1] This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Sign up for future newsletters. In July, Tesla fans lined up for hours in Los Angeles to check out…
What, to the American Incarcerated Person, Is Your Fourth of…
[ad_1] Additional reporting by Kiki Dunston On July 5, 1852, the formerly enslaved abolitionist Frederick Douglass delivered his scathing Independence Day speech about the paradox of patriotism in an America that had passed its second federal Fugitive…
Ohio Prison Staff Open Confidential Legal Mail, Violating Co…
[ad_1] To appeal his conviction for burglary and related charges, James Bishop needed the legal papers a Jefferson County court clerk had mailed him in prison. But mailroom staff at Ohio’s Noble Correctional Institution decided there were too many pages.…
How I Changed My Violent Prison Life by First Quitting Soda
[ad_1] By the time I was 24 years old, my life was in complete shambles. I had long-standing substance abuse problems that destroyed my marriage to my high school sweetheart and ruined a promising military career. Once divorced and ejected from the…