Jimmy Iakovos 
Georgia Won’t Fix Its Prisons Crisis. There’s Money in Letting It Get Worse.
When I began my sentence in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) prisons over 30 ...
GA Lawmakers Welcome Increasingly Wild Testimony in Vape Registry Push
On September 17, the Georgia House committee studying the “youth vaping epidemic” holds its ...
GDC Senate Study Committee: What If Prisoners Were Allowed Cigarettes?
In February, Georgia lawmakers created a study committee to think about whether people in ...
A New Gaza Strip Tobacco Market, and One in US Prisons That’s Getting Old
In early August, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) air-dropped cigarettes over the Gaza Strip. ...
Good Thing No One Uses Drugs in Prison, or RSAT Might Not Work
Because his conviction involved alcohol, the case plan Alf* was assigned by the Georgia ...
“Soups Will Cook There”: How Prisons Became Heat Traps by Design
Before the days of modern air-conditioning, homes and businesses in the Southeastern United States ...
Wellpath, Fleeing GA Prisons Contract, Fails One Last Bid at Extortion
On July 1, three years into its nine-year contract, private health care provider Wellpath ...
GA Prisons to Get “Additional Meals,” a Bad Fix for the Wrong Problem
On May 7, Governor Brian Kemp (R) signed a $36.1 billion spending plan for ...
The Lifers Trapped in Georgia’s Parole Crisis Are Watching Senate Bill 586
About a decade ago, people serving life with parole in Georgia Department of Corrections ...
Georgia Senate to Study Prisons, Just in Case the Problem Isn’t Cell Phones
The Georgia Senate has contemplated the bloodbath unfolding inside its state prisons and concluded ...
