Writer: Ty Evans

Prison used to be rougher, whew, a place you dreaded to go, a place that inspired fear and anxiety, a place possessed with dark brutality,…

Prison cellmate conflict is one of the most common—and dangerous—triggers for violence behind bars, where even minor annoyances can escalate into life-threatening situations. Standing over…

Ty Evans explains how living with bad cellmates inside a maximum-security prison can test patience, push boundaries, and even provoke violent thoughts. I stood over…

John William Stout was confident he could win at trial, even without an attorney, because “the DNA evidence can’t be mine. It didn’t test positive…

In the 1978 movie Midnight Express, American hashish smuggler Billy Hayes serves a few years in a Turkish prison. Then he gets resentenced to life…

An early scene in The Shawshank Redemption has the old-school convicts watching the new fish get off the bus and placing bets on which one…

  John Myers, convicted of the most infamous and mysterious cold case in Bloomington’s history, is still in prison. To some, that’s a good thing.…

The elderly in prison don’t fight well, was my thought when I saw Isaac hit the infirmary floor. Just not quick enough. Isaac was a…

After two years of putting up with the rednecks as a permanent worker at the North Florida Reception Center in Lake Butler, I was guaranteed…

  Flames surged out of cell A-250, well-fueled by rolled-up newspapers, cardboard, and clothing collected by the cell’s lone occupant, Ryan Nieves. He wanted the…

If you woke in the middle of the night and heard your neighbor being robbed, you could hear that he was about to be stabbed,…

“You've got a thousand men in the water and maybe three life preservers. You better be okay with watching men drown. ” - Melvin Tunstall,…

Users use whatever is available, and all price does is move them from one drug to another. “White people are starting to figure that out,”…

THE JURORS GASPED when they saw the photo. I was on the witness stand in federal court when my attorney entered the photo as an…

  Jeffery Hofstedter was our prime example of schizophrenia augmented by religiosity. White, late thirties, anorexically thin, he balanced a supersize pair of bifocal chominators…

Editor’s Note: Michael Daniels has been released from prison and is finally home with his family. This story was written before his release and remains…