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What I Learned From a Year of Reading Letters From Prisoners

The Marshall Project receives nearly 3,000 letters a year from people behind bars. Each one tells a different story about the system’s harms.

Feature • 12.16.2024

Texas Prisons Stopped In-Person Visits and Limited Mail. Drugs Got in Anyway.

Guards smuggle in most contraband, people who live in or work at prisons say.

News • 03.29.2021

This Prison Won’t Let Me Read “Game of Thrones”

Navigating the sometimes weird, arcane rules about inmate contraband.

Life Inside • 06.28.2018

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