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Jimmy Iakovos 
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. ...
How Drugs Grew in Our Prison Flower Beds for Over a Decade
[Read Part 1 of this story here.] Charlie was someone you’d expect to be ...
The Gardener Who Grew Our Health Care in Prison
For most of his time in Georgia Department of Corrections custody, Charlie was assigned ...
Prison “K2”: The Hidden Center of a Chaotic New Drug War
Back when I was running with biker gangs, we used to play a game ...
How Prison and Parole Can Pull You Into a Debt Trap
In her late 20s, Laura* sold an eighth of Vitablend to a person who ...
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. ...
