Most of us only know what prison life looks like thanks to movies and TV shows — and those tend to exaggerate almost everything. In reality, a lot of what people believe about prison is a mix of myths ...

We were standing by a large white board in one of the prison’s educational areas, debriefing how our study on hope had gone when the man slipped into the room without a sound. Like the other ...

Early one morning in 2003, I woke up next to my girlfriend, Ambere, in the Venice Beach apartment that we shared. Sunlight flitted over the Pacific Ocean and into our bedroom. I ate breakfast and ...