When someone is incarcerated, maintaining a connection with the outside world becomes a lifeline. One of the most powerful ways to keep that connection is through writing love letters. These letters ...

Anyone who has an incarcerated loved one knows how prohibitively expensive it is to support them while they are in prison. But few people outside our families know the hardship we face when our loved ...

The Appeal, a nonprofit news organization focusing on criminal justice, last week published an excellent report on commissary price gouging in U.S. prisons. It includes a database of prison commissary ...

It’s not just your grocery bill going up — people in prison are facing rising food costs, too. Several incarcerated people say Tennessee prisons do not serve enough food in their chow halls, which ...

Lakina Gay, a former Coweta County Department of Corrections employee, is accused of stealing $50,000 to $100,000 from the prison commissary account between 2019 and 2023. The Georgia Bureau of ...

After more than a year of back and forth, the Luzerne County Prison Board voted Tuesday to seek bids for prison commissary purchases. The debate over bidding started in December 2007, when county ...