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My Long Hair Isn’t a Vanity Project. It’s My Last Connection to Life Outside

In this foreign landscape of state-issued orange, my hair feels like all I have left of my identity.

Life Inside • 03.20.2026

How I Survived a Year in ‘the Hole’ Without Losing My Mind

In prison, going to “the hole” can mean spending 23 hours a day alone in a tiny cell. Here, incarcerated author Michael J. Nichols shares his top 10 tips for enduring long stretches of “administrative segregation.”

Life Inside • 09.30.2022

‘A Humiliating Experience’: Prisoners Allege Abuse at Discipline-focused ‘Shock’ Camps

New York is closing one of its last ‘shock’ camps, a move some experts and former prisoners say is a long time coming.

Inside Out • 02.24.2022

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