Unlike in the version of prison conjured on TV and in the movies, I found a community quick to be generous and kind.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Content warning: Discussions of violence, sexual assault, and murder. This past year, I've been asking former inmates and people ...

For more than 50 years, the Prison Book Program has been built on one simple idea: Everybody deserves the freedom to read. The Quincy-based nonprofit sends tens of thousands of free books each year to ...

This May, the results of a two-year investigation into drinking water contamination at Mule Creek State Prison in Ione was published by the online criminal justice publication The Appeal and the ...

In the movies, people bolt upright, panting after dramatic awakenings from bad dreams. I thought that was an exaggeration until I experienced it behind bars. In my nightmare, my 2-year-old son entered ...

I watched my cellmate at Mule Creek drop nearly 50 pounds in about three months. Acute pain in his side sent him to an outside hospital where he was ultimately diagnosed with kidney cancer. California ...