Jimmy Iakovos 
“Alligator Alcatraz” ICE Detention Opens, Floods, and Begins Filling Beds
On July 1, President Donald Trump visited the Florida immigrant detention compound dubbed “Alligator ...
Prisons Need Their Own Post Offices, Not That We’ll Ever Get Them
Back before the COVID-19 pandemic when the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) still had ...
Nebraska’s Fix for Double-Bunking in Solitary Confinement May Need Work
In Nebraska, where state prisons are often at 140-percent capacity, the legislature is considering ...
It Shouldn’t Be Quite This Hard to Get Into Our Prison’s Library
Recently one of our prison’s library clerks, Polo*, remarked in passing that the Georgia ...
Prisons Want to Hire More Officers. It’s Easier Than Retaining Them.
One of the most important things to understand about the rampant understaffing in United ...
Georgia Prisoners Took Risks for DOJ’s Investigation. Why Did We Bother?
Nine years ago when the Department of Justice opened an investigation into violence inside ...
As Years in Prison Become Decades, Lifers’ Thoughts on Suicide Evolve
[This article describes deaths by suicide, including reference to a method of suicide.] ...
New York’s Solution to Prison Staffing Shortage Is to Hire Teenagers
I thought we learned from the Stanford Prison Experiment that college-age corrections officers are ...
Georgia Prisons Now Hold Over 10,000 Lifers as Parole Crisis Deepens
In the Department of Justice report summarizing its years-long investigations into the Georgia Department ...
Can Any Banks Explain How Prisoner ID Cards Aren’t Valid State-Issued ID?
If you didn’t already have a bank account before you were incarcerated, it’s almost ...
