Writer: Shakeil Price

Shakeil Price describes how surviving in prison requires fighting for freedom, health, dignity, and identity in a system he believes is designed to break him.…

Shakeil Price shares how a prison book ban in New Jersey threatens his only lifeline to education, rehabilitation, and hope. I’ve been locked up for…

Woop! Woop! The loud noises stir me from my sleep. It’s coming from men yelling out a warning from the cells around me. Woop! Woop!…

On Juneteenth, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed Executive Order No. 362. New Jersey’s clemency initiative is geared towards providing relief from the inequalities that…

Amid the relentless chaos of New Jersey State Prison, one inmate’s attempt to find quiet in prison is dramatically interrupted by a sudden alarm. The…

Shakeil Price was given a life sentence based solely on the testimony of his co-defendant’s girlfriend. He has spent the last nine excruciating years navigating…

“Damn it’s cold back here.” The nurse said as she stopped by the inmate’s cell to give him his morning dose of medication. The escort…

Captive Voices Writing Program at New Jersey State Prison is a rehabilitative and therapeutic outlet for its participants. In March of 2022, freelance writer Tariq…

The air in the mess hall is saturated with fear and tension. A couple hundred convicted murderers, rapist, drug kingpins, and gang bangers have assembled,…

Shakeil Price:  A plea deal I never knew existed cost me my freedom — and exposed how the system fails the people it’s supposed to…

The feeling of being directed to bend over at the waist, spread your ass cheeks, and expose your anus is too awful for words. I…