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Facing Life Photo Night. Join the Pulitzer Center for Facing Life Photo Night at the University of North Carolina Hussman School of Journalism and Media on Wednesday, September 7. Hear from Brandon Tauszik, the photographer and filmmaker behind Facing Life, a Pulitzer Center-supported multimedia project that chronicles the experiences of eight individuals living through reentry after serving life sentences in California prisons. Each person's story is brought to life through photography by Tauszik, writing by journalist Pendarvis Harshaw, and direct audio and video from interviews with th...

New York has substituted the phrase 'incarcerated person' for the word 'inmate' in a series of state laws referring to people serving prison time.

Documenting eight people who were released from life sentences in California prisons due to policy change, the project shines a light on the pervasive and systemic issues caused by mass incarceration.

Life After Life in California’s Prisons . In 2006, California’s prison system housed more than 170,000 people, 199% of the capacity it was designed to hold. Five years later, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that health conditions in the state’s...

These profiles, excerpted from the 'Facing Life' multimedia project, tell the stories of people working to reenter society after serving decades behind bars.