Here are some poems either written by prisoners or popular with prisoners, including “Invictus,” which inspired Nelson Mandela during his 29 years of captivity, and gave its name to the recent ...

HLS’ basement houses several prison periodicals housed in Harvard’s archives, and when Jessica N. Chapel found them, they were in dire need of preservation.

Moving poems written by prisoners and their children have been published in a new book edited by a De Montfort University Leicester academic. Dr Lucy Baldwin, senior lecturer in Criminology and ...

I didn’t mean to go to prison. For years I’d earned my living as a freelance journalist. But 15 years ago, out of financial necessity, I took a job as a writer in residence in a 1960s-built ...

Poems written by prisoners in County Durham jails are helping to celebrate National Poetry Day. Their poetry is on display at Durham County Council's Clayport Library until Saturday. Inmates from ...

Poetry by the prisoners is not altogether a new phenomenon. Since the establishment of Welikada Prison in 1844, for nearly 200 years prisoners have written poems, their compositions written using ...

Moving poems written by prisoners and their children have been published in a new book edited by a De Montfort University Leicester academic. Dr Lucy Baldwin, senior lecturer in Criminology and ...