Christy Perez 
I’ve Always Been Incarcerated With Men. I Never Felt Safe Until This Time.
In the year between paroling out of Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) custody and ...
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 ...
How Tablets Changed Georgia Prisons, More Than GDC Intended
In 2015, when I was about three years into a 14-year prison sentence, the ...
Nothing Sums Up the Sex Offender Registry Quite Like Halloween
Since 2008, people on sex offender registries in Missouri have been required to post ...
Prisoners Need Civilian Review Boards, Too
Toward the end of my sentence in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) custody I ...
Guards Delegate Security to Prisoners as Understaffing Crisis Evolves
Corrections officers (COs) have long relied on prisoners to do various parts of their ...
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 ...
In Defense of Contraband Cell Phones
As a transgender woman incarcerated in a men’s prison system, each day was a ...
Everyone I Know on Parole Is Vaping
Nobody ever really talked about cigarette alternatives in prison. Tobacco is abundantly available to ...
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 ...
