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Life Inside September 30, 2022
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.”
By Michael J. Nichols
Life Inside March 4, 2021
How I Keep Hope Alive While Serving 150 Years in Prison
In those moments when I feel like a puppet tied up in strings, I draw on my Muslim faith to stay hopeful.
by Tariq Maqbool
Life Inside October 11, 2018
I Met My Friend in Prison. Now I Doubt His Innocence.
A prison volunteer's belief in second chances faces a difficult test.
By Damian Zurro
Life Inside August 30, 2018
Breaking the Unwritten Rule of Prison
Or, what happens when guards and prison staff interact as just human beings.
By Lyle May
Commentary April 11, 2018
Police Brutality Drove a Wedge Between Me and My Church
“I still believe that the congregation has some of the nicest people I’ve ever met. Unfortunately, there were limits to that warmth that I could not abide.”
Anthony Fowler Jr.
The Rev. Ronald Apollo at the flag folding ceremony for his retirement ceremony from the U.S. Air Force in 2017.
News January 26, 2018
The Bureau of Prisons Yields to a Chaplain’s Conscience
The bureau relents in a stalemate over pepper spray.
By Justin George
Jera Thompson joins in a group discussion in Wichita, Kan.
News December 7, 2017
What’s Christian in the Season of Trump?
Awakening Evangelicals to an “outrageous” system.
By Justin George
Life Inside August 17, 2017
I Thought Being Gay Was a Sin Until I Saw My Friend Suffer in Prison
A Christian inmate confronts his own beliefs.
By James King
Louisiana State Penitentiary warden Burl Cain delivers remarks prior to the screening of the documentary ‘Serving Life,’ by director Lisa R. Cohen, inside the prison chapel in Angola, La., Thursday, July 21, 2011. The film is about the volunteer hospice work done by inmates for inmates dying in the prison. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
News December 14, 2015
What Angola's Resigning Warden Is Leaving Behind
For 20 years, Burl Cain both punished and preached.
By Maurice Chammah
Feature September 21, 2015
A Letter to Pope Francis
You are about to enter Philadelphia’s largest jail. Here is what you should know.
By Maurice Chammah
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