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The Last Night in Jail Is the Start of Something Worse
For a “first-termer,” the clock on their prison sentence starts with that moment of dread in the transport vehicle.
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Poetry
Another Reminder
Sharing showers with shoes on your feet / Everything shared / Like the air that’s breathed / So if someone gets sick / It’ll soon spread
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Prison Journalism Project has published work by more than 600 writers, poets and artists in 35 states, Canada and the United Kingdom. You can read the biographies of our writers and their stories as they introduce themselves.
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REPORTERS NOTEBOOK
Writers behind bars have first amendment rights, but their incarceration restricts their ability to do journalism because they are not physically free.
So how do they report, write and produce prison newspapers?
These are the stories behind their stories.
OUR WRITERS
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Today most stories about prison are written with an outside perspective. Take the power of journalism into your own hands, learn the craft of journalistic storytelling and share your stories of life behind bars.