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.

    Ignoring Georgia’s Public Defender Crisis, and the Obvious Way to Fix It

    Georgia’s public defender shortage was recently of interest to the media when it affected ...

    Everyone Against the Drug War Needs to Know About Jury Nullification

    In 1734, New York Weekly Journal publisher John Peter Zenger was arrested for seditious ...

    Lifers Fall Through the Cracks of the Prison Security Classification System

    The Georgia Department of Corrections assigns every person in its custody a security classification: ...

    Georgia Lawmakers’ “Number-One Priority” is Literacy, Except in Prisons

    Georgia legislators say they’re going all-in to improve literacy rates. On March 10 the ...

    Georgia Moves Backwards With New Forensic Mental Health Hospital

    For the past 16 years, Georgia was under a federal injunction: It could not ...

    Georgia “One Strike Act”: Even More Life Sentences, Even Less Parole

    In late February, senators in Georgia introduced a bill known as the One Strike ...

    The Last Days of Parole

    For the first time in six years, in 2025 the Georgia State Board of ...

    Fixing Electronics in Prison

    There are few soft surfaces in prison, so when one of us drops a ...

    The Georgia Parole Board Pardoned a Turkey

    Each year when the president did the White House turkey pardons it always seemed ...

    Some Prisons Have Quietly Stopped Giving Us Winter Clothes

    After issuing prisoners the same lined winter jackets since 1991, last winter the Georgia ...