When incarcerated writer Lacino Hamilton was exonerated and released from the Michigan prison system in 2020, he credited Truthout’s ongoing coverage of…

Because he is incarcerated, this outcome will inevitably be hidden behind the veneer of public safety, when really, it’s a matter of a cold cost-benefit analysis: whose life is determined to matter, and whose is not

For all intents and purposes, I am dead to everything but melancholic anxieties and horrible despair. This is torture

From Inside a Michigan Prison

George Jackson believed prison either brings out the very best in people – though not without perverse consequences, or it destroys them entirely. “But none are unaffected,” he’d often observe