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How to Grieve and Find Comfort in Death Behind Bars
What happens when a loved one dies while you’re inside? What if you’re the one dying? Here’s how one prison handles funerals, grief and comfort when death touches a resident.
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A Voice for Felons
we’re not all cold-hearted villains here / I’ve witnessed murderers break down in tears
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Prison Journalism Project has published work by more than 650 writers, poets and artists in 38 states, Canada and the United Kingdom. You can read the biographies of our writers and their stories as they introduce themselves.
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REPORTERS NOTEBOOK
Writers behind bars have first amendment rights, but their incarceration restricts their ability to do journalism because they are not physically free.
So how do they report, write and produce prison newspapers?
These are the stories behind their stories.
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Today most stories about prison are written with an outside perspective. Take the power of journalism into your own hands, learn the craft of journalistic storytelling and share your stories of life behind bars.