JoinJeremy is excited to announce The Collective, our new digital publication for inside and outside voices advocating for the inclusion and protection of incarcerated journalists. Read the introduction by Managing Editor Jeremy Busby at joinjeremy.org/the-collective and joinjeremy.substack.com

Proud to partner with @theintercept.com on this article by Jeremy Busby of @joinjeremy.org. Jamming cell phones in prisons isn't about crime, it's to stop incarcerated people from exposing abuses, like those shown in HBO's upcoming documentary The Alabama Solution.

Proud to partner with @theintercept.com on this article by Jeremy Busby of @joinjeremy.org. Jamming cell phones in prisons isn't about crime, it's about stopping incarcerated people from exposing abuses, like those shown in the upcoming @hbo.bsky.social documentary The Alabama Solution.

"Jerry Shaw has experienced setbacks whenever he’s sought treatment for several medical conditions. In particular, it has become difficult for Shaw to open and close his right hand. He said it is a constant battle to get the care he needs."

For over 100 days, journalist Mario Guevara has been detained by U.S. law enforcement for his livestream reporting. He is the only journalist behind bars for his journalism, and he could be deported for doing his job. We demand his immediate release. freedomformario.com

In a recent piece, Kelsey Dodson shares what it's like to menstruate in prison. One woman says she was forced to bleed through her underwear, her pants, and finally her white blanket during an hour-long count. This piece was co-published with @theguardian.com. Please give it a read.

This Incarcerated Journalist Is Making a Case Against Solitary Confinement. Story via The Progressive.

“I find it somewhat ironic that a person can learn to live life in a place where they were sent to die.”

“It is not uncommon for guards to withhold food unless we take our shirts off," writes prison journalist Kwaneta Harris in Texas.

Rahsaan Thomas, a formerly incarcerated writer and advocate, fights for financial freedom for the incarcerated.

California Turns Down Another Chance to End Forced Prison Labor

People in prison died at 3.4 times the rate of the free population, with the oldest hit hardest, at the peak of the pandemic in 2020. Data holds lessons for preventing future deaths. Read our analysis ⬇️

Journalists are being massacred in Gaza and the U.S. is doing nothing to stop the bloodbath it’s bankrolling. Use our easy new tool to tell Congress you’re fed up with the government’s inaction.

As Many Trans Prisoners Lose Gender-Affirming Care Under New Georgia Law, Advocates Fight to Support Them. Story via NLGJA Connect.

Nonbinary writer K.C. Johnson soon learned that behind bars, even their underwear was subject to deliberations. "While I don’t consider myself a man, I also don’t feel like a woman. Yet most places, especially my North Carolina prison, want clearly delineated identifications."

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In women’s prisons across Texas, guards deploy tear gas for cursing, for walking too slowly, for asking too many questions. “This isn’t correction or rehabilitation. It’s torture by another name,” Kwaneta Harris accounts. It’s about control. prismreports.org/2025/08/07/t...

A message from V, a letter to Kwaneta's teenage self, Black August, and a fundraiser to bring Kwaneta's family together. Read Kwaneta's latest Substack and support her family's fundraiser to offset travel costs for an in-person visit! kwanetaharris.substack.com/p/happy-birt... bit.ly/kwanetafamily

"I know it’s too hot in my prison when prisoners start checking into suicide-watch cells in our medical area. People employ various excuses, but most know they do it because the infirmaries have air conditioning."

"I’ve been troubled lately by the prevalence of stories I call #prisonfoodporn. The standards of the genre tend to be about how prison chefs get creative with limited ingredients and cooking tools, and how bad the chow hall food is."

Collecting birthday messages to forward to Jeremy Busby, who is currently in solitary confinement. Also, check out his birthday meal recipe using foods from TDCJ Commissary, shared with us: joinjeremy.org/2025/08/08/h...

Federal law closes courthouse doors to incarcerated journalists Watch and read about our recent webinar with Jeremy Busby, a journalist and activist incarcerated in Texas, and @aclu.org's @corene.bsky.social and Nina Patel.

New Commentary by Jeremy Busby in the @chicagotribune.com #FreeLarryHoover www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/07/o...

LIVE NOW: Join us for a conversation about how federal law impedes reporting on U.S.'s prisons, featuring Jeremy Busby, an incarcerated writer calling in from Texas, @aclu.org's Corene Kendrick and Nina Patel, and @seth-stern.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiGx...

🔔 Join us for a conversation about how federal law impedes reporting on America's prisons, featuring Jeremy Busby, @aclu.org's @corene.bsky.social and Nina Patel, and @seth-stern.bsky.social. 🕒 Thursday, July 31, 3 p.m. EDT/Noon PDT RSVP: freedom.press/journalism-b...

Law enforcement is violently targeting press at protests around Los Angeles, from easily recognizable "mainstream" outlets to freelancers and independents. ALL press have explicit legal protections in California. #JournalismIsNotACrime. This evidence thread may get graphic. 🧵👇

"We cannot fully understand their world without their stories and perspectives. For the next two weeks of the “Change the Storytellers, Transform the Story” campaign, our goal is to raise $10,000 to increase the resources and compensation we provide our writers."

A tease to read...

How I Helped My Brother Better Understand My Life Behind Bars.

Featured story: “Death row becomes what prison is supposed to be but often isn’t. Death row is a place of reformation, rehabilitation, and correction. Ironically the one place where it matters the least.”

Our local reporters looked at jails in three cities that flout local, state, and federal directives requiring access to natural light and time outside. The effects can range from depression and sleep disorders to osteoporosis and high blood pressure.

Having access to devices in prison solves some challenges and introduces others.

What New York Prisons Are Like After the Guard Strike

Is True Crime Keeping Me in Prison? TV producers exploited the worst decision of my life. I’m not the only one. Story via Vulture.

"Here is the truth: Art rescues us from oppression. Bending the Bars is one thread in a long quilt, woven by voices over the centuries, and one sorely needed now." @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/ben...

WA DOC evading FOIA, as well as outsourcing prison comms decisionmaking and recordkeeping to Securus Note: CA prisons are now contracting w Securus and debating banning physical mail. truthout.org/articles/pri...

"Insights from a former prison journalist" by JoinJeremy Advocacy and Content Director William Chaplar. Read on our website/Substack! joinjeremy.org/2025/05/22/i...

"... It triggered memories of my own life in U.S. prisons. I’ve been in since Ronald Reagan was president and I’ve always found it difficult to communicate certain aspects of the experience. Being possessed, for instance, is a reality many of my readers would not intuitively understand."

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I wake up hoping to be in a king-sized mattress with a view of Lake Michigan. Instead, my bed is paper thin and I see 96 rusted steel bars.

Last week, Jason Boss of Behind the Bars interviewed Jeremy Busby about his life and the circumstances of his prison sentence. Visit our website to listen, and read Jeremy's article "How ‘Standing My Ground’ Earned Me 75 Years in Prison."

I’m watching the news about the expansion of the carceral state and the growing eugenicist movement determined to make us sicker and thinking again about how CORRIDORS OF CONTAGION by @victorialaw.bsky.social is an essential read for understanding these times: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2447-c...

An interview with Angel, a former 2020 Uprising prisoner and current ICE detainee of trans-masculine lesbian of Mapuche heritage facing deportation to Chile, speaking about conditions in ICE detention thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/05...

Press freedom is under attack, but for some communities the limits of that freedom have always been deeply felt. Watch the recording of our panel on incarcerated journalists’ fight for press freedom that marked last year’s World Press Freedom Day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9jf...