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.
I’m coming up on the three-year anniversary of the day I stopped smoking cigarettes. It’s strange to think that I…
[Read Part 1 of this story here.] Charlie was someone you’d expect to be an easy target in prison, and…
For most of his time in Georgia Department of Corrections custody, Charlie was assigned to the horticulture crew. Over the…
Back when I was running with biker gangs, we used to play a game called Crash or Fly. Someone would…
In her late 20s, Laura* sold an eighth of Vitablend to a person who turned out to be an undercover…
In the 1950s, John Hopkins University Professor Curt Richter ran a series of experiments on rats that involved placing them…
The first time the Georgia Department of Corrections tried to go tobacco-free was 1994. In the mid-'90s it was trendy…