Christy Perez 
Surviving Solitary Confinement With the Help of Drugs
Of the 13 years I’ve spent incarcerated, 2020 was the worst. It was the ...
Georgia Privatizes Prison Medical Care—With Contractor’s Goal to Cut Costs
After years of attempting to privatize prisoner medical care, the Georgia Department of Corrections ...
Prisoners Without Cells or Beds Are Sleeping Outside in Georgia
Many effects of the understaffing crisis within the Georgia Department of Corrections have been ...
“The Great Meltdown”: In Prisons, a Drug War Without Harm Reduction
Those of us incarcerated by the Georgia Department of Corrections got used to the ...
Don’t Brag About Hiring People With Criminal Records If You Ignore Those of Us With Felonies
The first thing employers are going to ask me when I get out of ...
Restoring Pell Grants to Prisoners Boosts Our Education—in Theory
In 2023, the Education Department will restore Pell Grant eligibility to incarcerated students and ...
Prison Didn’t Rehabilitate Me, But Using Meth in Prison Did
It’s ironic in retrospect that drugs were part of why I went to prison, ...
Why Allowing Only Prison-Issue Cell Phones Hurts Our Reentry Prospects
The Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) is no longer allowing prisoners on work release ...
How Exactly Are Tablets Supposed to Solve Georgia’s Prisons Crisis?
On January 19, Georgia Department of Corrections Commissioner Timothy Ward deflected questions from the ...
Georgia Prisons Are in Crisis—and Punishing Trans Women for It
The Georgia Department of Corrections is in freefall. By the time the US Department ...
