Our Characters of the Week feature many contenders exuding resilience, strength, and vulnerability beyond trauma.

Programming like Shakespeare in Prison has been found to significantly decrease recidivism rates according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

In her collection of poems, titled Exiled for My Mouth, Stella Nyanzi has laid on thick the thinness of her existence, ...

He survived electroshock treatments and the threat of lobotomy to become one of Ireland’s most popular poets. The Irish Times ...

Right now in the US, more than a million mothers are pouring energy and money into trying to care for incarcerated sons.

Pregnant people are undergoing constant horrors at the hands of the carceral state, and the laws we’ve passed aren’t helping ...

One of the many difficult things about visiting a parent in prison, children say, is that they can’t hug them, sit in their ...

Mery Smith's tumultuous journey to the title Spokane Poet Laureate included flunking out of college due to alcoholism and ...

After serving prison time for attempted murder, Luis Antonio Rodriguez, known as "Puppy" when young, has been working to make ...

Students from McClure Junior High made their way through downtown Western Springs, planting odes in front of their favorite businesses.

Guiding them through their relationship highs and lows, she’s gained wisdom on how people navigate love in prison and adapt to the challenges ... them to find inspiration through music, from a poem or ...

Father Zef Plum's poems show the great world of the author's efforts and hope to overthrow the cult of violence and to erect a great monument of love, which is at the core of the Franciscans' dream.