Topic: Prison Reform

A longtime resident at SCI Chester has teamed up with a facility superintendent on a program that brings generations together and transforms lives, says a director of the Penn Prison Education and Reentry Initiative

The Philly woman was on probation for 12 years before securing her early release. Now she’s helping others navigate the system — including a local mom who is now probation-free thanks to REFORM Alliance and Myers’ nonprofit, Above All Odds

A ballot measure on May 20 asks Philadelphia voters create an independent body to investigate dangerous conditions that have plagued the City’s jails for decades.

A way to get more people voting and make our communities safer? That’s what happened with a Colorado program Pennsylvania could easily replicate

A radical reconfiguration of inmate experience at SCI Chester just got the greenlight to expand to other state prisons

As a young man, Spel was one of Philadelphia’s most-recognized graffiti writers. Since 1990, he’s been restricted to making art behind bars, incarcerated for a crime that he says he did not commit. The next in our Art for Change series

The Point Breeze native spent 26 years imprisoned for a murder he says he didn’t commit. His release comes after years of efforts by lawyers and high-profile activists, including sports reporter Michael Barkann and local business leader Jay Coen Gilbert

The Abolitionist Law Center’s executive director met with members of the Biden administration in D.C. this week. Here’s his advice for how the president can change his mass incarceration rep

The City’s new approach to the drug trade in Kensington could send increasing numbers of people to city jails. How will that square with the prison department’s ongoing staffing crisis?

West Philly non-profit Books Through Bars has provided the incarcerated with books for more than 30 years. Now, with growing inaccessibility, its work is needed more than ever