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.

    GA Parole-Eligible Lifers Are Headed to the Private Prison Aftercare Industry

    Of the 51,284 people currently incarcerated in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) prisons, 7,937 ...

    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 ...