C Dreams

C is a writer and advocate interested in prison/criminal justice reform, LGBTQ rights, harm reduction and government/cultural criticism. She has studied history/theology with the Third Order of Carmelites and completed degrees in Systematic Theology. She is currently studying law.

Georgia’s Jails Are Less Violent Than Its Prisons. That Comes at Other Costs.

Six weeks after the United States Department of Justice published the findings of its investigation into Georgia Department of Corrections…

November 27, 2024

How Tablets Changed Georgia Prisons, More Than GDC Intended

In 2015, when I was about three years into a 14-year prison sentence, the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) started…

November 19, 2024

Nothing Sums Up the Sex Offender Registry Quite Like Halloween

Since 2008, people on sex offender registries in Missouri have been required to post a sign at their home each…

October 9, 2024

Prisoners Need Civilian Review Boards, Too

Toward the end of my sentence in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) custody I was a clerk in the Central…

October 1, 2024

Guards Delegate Security to Prisoners as Understaffing Crisis Evolves

Corrections officers (COs) have long relied on prisoners to do various parts of their jobs. But since the onset of…

September 24, 2024

Trans Health Care Requires You to Be “Sick.” In Prison, You Can Work That.

On September 17, a federal judge halted the Indiana Department of Correction (IDOC) ban on gender-affirming surgery for people in…

September 18, 2024

In Defense of Contraband Cell Phones

As a transgender woman incarcerated in a men’s prison system, each day was a fight to maintain my sense of…

September 3, 2024

Everyone I Know on Parole Is Vaping

Nobody ever really talked about cigarette alternatives in prison. Tobacco is abundantly available to anyone in Georgia Department of Corrections…

August 21, 2024

Sex Workers Are “Trafficking Victims” Until Cops Don’t Want Them to Be

I started sex work in my early teens. Older boys in the foster care homes and group homes I grew…

August 14, 2024

I Know ID Verification Is Anti-Trans, But at Least Let Me File My Taxes

In the middle of the 13 years I spent incarcerated, there was a brief period in 2018 that I was…

July 23, 2024