Keri Blakinger

Incarcerated people say contraband phones can improve lives, despite the risks.

Our investigations spotlighted rampant violations, like thousands of broken fire alarms and smoke detectors.

Censorship kept me from finishing a college essay behind bars. Now, prisons might keep readers from my memoir.

“Staff complacency” allowed a man to break out of a prison bus — and kill a family.

Overcrowding, violence and abuse proliferate at jails across the country, as staffing problems make long-simmering problems worse.

While prisoners protest unsafe conditions, “it just doesn’t let up,” say advocates.

Inspired by European models, the new Bureau of Prisons director built a Japanese garden in one penitentiary and made official language less demeaning. But some are skeptical of lasting reform.

Keri Blakinger’s new book, “Corrections in Ink,” began with Susan Begg, an older woman the author met on her second day in jail. If only Susan had lived to see it in print.

In an excerpt from her new memoir, ‘Corrections in Ink,’ Keri Blakinger puts us at the scene of her drug arrest — and her path to becoming The Marshall Project’s first formerly incarcerated staff writer.

How the Supreme Court expanded the most important law you’ve never heard of.