Jimmy Iakovos

    Jimmy Iakovos is a pseudonym for a writer who is incarcerated in Georgia. It is illegal in some Southern states to earn a living while under a sentence of penal servitude. Writing has enabled Jimmy to endure over 30 years of continuous imprisonment.

    Georgia Poised to Criminalize Vaping in Public Spaces

    The state of Georgia has long criminalized harm reduction whatever way it can, and ...

    How I Quit Cigarettes in Prison, After Smoking for 40 Years

    I’m coming up on the three-year anniversary of the day I stopped smoking cigarettes. ...

    The Gardener Who Grew Our Health Care in Prison

    For most of his time in Georgia Department of Corrections custody, Charlie was assigned ...

    Lifers, Lab Rats and the Mandatory Minimums Experiment

    In the 1950s, John’s Hopkins University Professor Curt Richter ran a series of experiments ...

    Tobacco Bans in Our Prisons Are Rich Pickings for Me—and the COs

    The first time the Georgia Department of Corrections tried to go tobacco-free was 1994. ...