Jeffery Shockley, Author at Prison Journalism Project — Page 2 of 5

Loops of razor wire against of cloudy sky.

A Sunday in a Pennsylvania Prison

by Jeffery Shockley August 26, 2024August 28, 2024

Collage for Black History Month

A Man Serving a Life Sentence Vows to Prove Society Wrong

by Jeffery Shockley February 2, 2024February 1, 2024

Side-by-side photos of before and after Jeffery Shockley's haircut

What It Meant When I Cut Off My Dreadlocks After 14 Years

by Jeffery Shockley September 28, 2023September 21, 2023

Sign for SCI Mercer in Mercer, Pennsylvania

After Two Decades, I Finally Transferred to a New Prison

by Jeffery Shockley August 31, 2023December 6, 2024

Pennsylvania state capitol building in Harrisburg

Listen to Your Elders? Not Here

by Jeffery Shockley July 26, 2023March 31, 2026

Two men approach a table at a reentry fair at a PA state prison

Why Prisons Fail to Rehabilitate People

by Jeffery Shockley June 22, 2023November 16, 2023

Traffic on the Schuykill Expressway (I-76) between Philadelphia and the northern and western suburbs

Essays & Memoirs

One Black Man’s Journey From the Suburbs to Prison

by Jeffery Shockley May 11, 2023May 15, 2023

Secretary of Corrections George Little

News

News: Pennsylvania Institutes Prison Pay Increase, A First in 30 Years

by Jeffery Shockley April 9, 2023March 23, 2026

A collection of old clocks mounted on a brick wall

How to Approach a New Year That’s Just Like All the Old Years

by Jeffery Shockley March 16, 2023March 10, 2023

Aging in prison can be a long journey

To Keep From Falling

by Jeffery Shockley February 6, 2023February 3, 2023