The United States is home to more than 1,600 state and federal prisons. Roughly 1% of the country’s adult population is currently incarcerated, and about one in every 20 people will serve prison time at some point in their lives. These facilities touch every corner of the country, from Charlottesville, Virginia to Taft, Oklahoma to San Quentin, California.
But for millions of Americans, the perspectives of incarcerated people and their families largely live in the dark, isolated from the rest of society. The Prison Journalism Project is among several efforts that now exist to change that.
The nonprofit organization, that relies on contributions from an array of foundations and individual donors, has published more than 2,600 stories from more than 830 writers across the country — everything from a first-person account of a murder that occurred in a facility to how extreme heat and no air conditioning are impacting the lives of incarcerated people.
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