I'm writing this as my father fights for his freedom. In 2010, my father took a plea deal to a federal charge for conspiracy to...

Jen Fitzgerald is a poet, essayist, photographer, and a native New Yorker who received her MFA in Poetry at Lesley University and her BA...

Dontie has been writing to us via Project Solidarity, the Pen Pal project, for over a year now. Since we first posted here about...

Karen Thomas is Prison Writes writing workshop English teacher and co-facilitator, as well as fundraising and outreach coordinator. ...

Nelson Mandela wrote this about letters he received in prison: “Small kindnesses penned onto paper and tucked into envelopes had the...

Fathers Against Abandoning Children Therapy Services (F.A.A.C.T.S.) Dedicated to my sons, love y'all "What terminology does a father use...

Ben (Cincere) Wilson is a writer, advocate and Program Assistant at the Institute for Transformative Mentoring Center for New York City...

Ben (Cincere) Wilson is Program Assistant at the Institute for Transformative Mentoring Center for New York City Affairs at The New...

In a letter to Prison Writes Dontie wrote, in part, "I'm fighting for my life here, Jessica.....I need help, Jessica. Corresponding...

"The Unforgiving Son" In this piece our friend Dark Skin continues relating his experience as an incarcerated parent, and the impact of...